• JehovasThickness@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I somehow didn’t realise that “retry” was literally “re-try” and not “ret-ree” until I was in my 20s

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      4 months ago

      I remember this one from video games as a kid. How are you with reedit? ;)

      A lot of those prefix words used to be hyphenated until people got used to them, even things like to-morrow way back in the day. Some of the stodgier publications (like the New Yorker) still use things like diaeresis (two dots about a letter) to mark words like coördination, whereas it’s all but fallen out of use otherwise except possibly occasionally showing up in noël.