For me it is the “fall of the Berlin wall” and the celebrations after the border openings.

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    6 months ago

    English got fucked… hard… because so many of the spellings came from people that had weird goals.

    Consider phial. Why do we spell it that way? Because some jackass decided that english needed to be more latiny and ph is more latiny than v. (or maybe it was greek? I don’t remember the exact etymology)

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        Hah that’s interesting, a lot of this wiki is quite easy to decipher as a Dutch and English speaker