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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other day my DD asked where the word sandwich came from. I told her about the earl of sandwich/it's a place or whatever. Then she asked but why was the place named sandwich. I thought about it.. Ok "sand" is easy. But "wich?" There's Greenwich, and Norwich. And so 'wich' must mean something. And I realized I think they're all pronounced differently. Gren-ich Norwich is "nor-wick" right And sandwich. That's easy. So do I have norwich right? I fully expect "cool story bro," but it bothered me that the three towns are all pronounced differently......[/quote] Basically the English are weird and like to pronounce names very unphonetically. Ralph is pronounced Rafe, for example. Also they like to drop syllables and entire consonants. [/quote]
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