• Dolores [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    you've got it completely backwards. Library is also 'book building' but in fucked up latin.

    you can figure out english meanings of words through germanic, latin, and greek roots & how the other word parts modify it---but pronunciation is completely arbitrary. a very casual relationship exists in english between how even directly borrowed words are pronounced vis-a-vis their original language