Hey! Don’t knock MES. I’ve had it now for likely 4 months. While I hate using the word “stress”, because it’s held responsible for anything that medical science cannot cure or explain, it came on during a stressful feeling I’ve never dealt with before. Right now the all male chorus is singing “Oh, Susana.” Only in my left ear. They’ve switched to “Battle Hymn of the Republic” for a while. They don’t completely sing the song but keep going over the most familiar parts of it, or another. Kinda “tinny” sound. Sometimes they switch to traditional songs or hit songs far back as the forties. They just went into - rats, what is it? A religious Christmas song. The title slipped my mind. Got it! “Adeste fideles, Laeti triumphantes. Venite venite in Bethlehem”
Ancient Latin was highly inflected. Meaning that the how the end of the word was written out determined TENSE (when the verb action was taking place; also if one or more than one person was performing the action Actually NUMBER was determined by a noun usually at the start of the sentence. And the noun determined GENDER - masculine. feminine or neuter. Why they had to assign a Gender to Every noun (person, place or thing) beats me. Today we refer to a ship (large ones) as “she”. The Titanic went down with “her” captain. The Latin word for ship being “navis” to which its creator assigned the female gender. Any adjective describing the ship had to modify its ending to the female version: “pulchra”. Two or more ships were “naves”. And if they were beautiful ships, they were “naves pulchrae”.
You know a Latin sentence had NO spaces between words. Nor did Romans use punctuation. A bit odd. Lastly, “lower case letters” did not exist until around the Middle Ages.
But try to explain to some poor immigrant how to pronounce English “ou”. Let’s see. There’s:

BOUGHT
BOUGH
THROUGH
THOUGH
NUMEROUS
ALOUD (maybe same as BOUGH)

A friend once asked me to pronounce this word: GHOTI
That’s GHOTI. I said I give up. You pronounce it.
And he said FISH. What!!??
FISH, he repeated.

He explained.

The “F” sound came from the sound of “GH” as in “ENOUGH”.

The “I” (like IT) came from

Lastly, the “SH” sound in FISH came from the “TI” in “NATION”. 🤪

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