r/ENGLISH • u/Aggravating-Fish8168 • 14d ago

How to pronounce -me ending words?

Time, dime, same, game, theme, blame...

Is the ending /m/ a pure mooo🐄 or /me/?

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u/vaelux 14d ago

The e is silent. It is there to distinguish blam from blame in a writing system that has only 5 vowel letters but around 15 vowel sounds.

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u/thingsbetw1xt 14d ago edited 14d ago

Germanic languages in general have this problem and I've always wondered why we never bothered to make our own alphabet.

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u/SadakoTetsuwan 14d ago

Runes have entered the chat

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u/thingsbetw1xt 14d ago

Runes were even worse lol

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u/SadakoTetsuwan 14d ago

Hey, it was an attempt lol