S.L. Rockfish
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English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
Why does pizza end with a T like a T-S sound when there is no T-S in it at all?
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
Why?
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
I do know.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
Want to know the answer?
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
It's because English steals words from other languages and then
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
Changes almost nothing.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
What?
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
Yeah.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
Pizza comes from Italian.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
Ah, pizza.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
And English kept the sound.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
Even though it doesn't match English spelling rules.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
Because if it was English spelling rules, it would be pizza, pizza.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
But it's not.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
We pronounce it pizza.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
I love the pizza.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
Pizza.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
We keep it that way because the English took it from the Italians and they never changed it.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
And that, my friends, is why English makes no sense.
English Makes No Sense
Why “Pizza” Sounds Like That (English Makes NO Sense 🍕)
Here's a little fun fact.