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   GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 18:38:33 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

   island
   iswater

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     Aleksei � Matiushkin (mudasobwa@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 18:42:19 JST Aleksei � Matiushkin

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     @GreenSkyOverMe does it imply it should be pronounced as /aɪ.ˈwɔː.tər/?

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 18:42:38 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Aleksei � Matiushkin

     @mudasobwa Good question!

     Or that island should be pronounced is-land?

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     Robin (robchapman@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 21:05:25 JST Robin

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     @GreenSkyOverMe isright🤣

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     Andre (compod@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 21:47:45 JST Andre

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     @GreenSkyOverMe isky isn’t noted

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     Numberz (numberscanbefun@lethallava.land)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 21:50:35 JST Numberz

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     @GreenSkyOverMe@ohai.social Be honest, who else tried to pronounce it as iSwatter on the first read. I can't be the only one 😅

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     Raffzahn (raffzahn@mastodon.bayern)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 22:56:58 JST Raffzahn

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     @GreenSkyOverMe

     isflatt?

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     Grumpy Grimnir :verified: (grumpygrimnir@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 00:37:57 JST Grumpy Grimnir :verified:

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     @GreenSkyOverMe Just to spoil the joke, the Old English/German/Norse words that 'island' had a lot more to do with water than you would think. The translation of the old words would be something like "water-land" or "river-land".

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     Edouard Duplessis (eduplessis@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 00:38:00 JST Edouard Duplessis

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     @GreenSkyOverMe

     🩴️ Sand = sea + land

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 00:40:37 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • berndandeweg

     @berndandeweg Not quite. Half the letters are sun letters, the other half moon letters. Al + a noun starting with a sun letter => l is silent, instead the sun letter is doubled. S is indeed one of the sun letters.

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     berndandeweg (berndandeweg@mastodon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 00:40:38 JST berndandeweg

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     @GreenSkyOverMe what is actually funny: in Arabian the articles are 'el' or 'al'. Only exception: words starting with an 's', then the article will be 'is'. Example: 'is shams', the sun. So, in Dutch people with an Arabic mother tongue will say 'is-sgoed' (goed = good) or 'is-smooi' (mooi = beautiful)...

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 04:37:46 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Christian

     @Rockndoll Stumpf?

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     Christian (rockndoll@misskey.de)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 04:37:49 JST Christian

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     @GreenSkyOverMe@ohai.social stumpf!