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Robot2600 posted...

to an english speaker the in is just silent when you say the word.

thing is, every language has stuff like this.

Yeah I understand this. I just wish there was some kind of easily explainable rule. Like in English you can just say "ph" sounds like "f"

Take the word Garage for example, (which contains the proper "g" to use in gif). That shit is insanity. No rhyme or reason. I mean I'm sure there's an explanation if you dig into the etymology but as a word itself, no one ever said why garage has two different Gs in the same word.

A similar thing in Japanese would be where the first sounds like "shi" and the second sounds like "sh"