#toste

And now I have to add the one I made from the surreal music video Michael Sheen starred in 😅

Yeah this is a post I'm making now, fight me. I was trying to explain spelling bees to @komorezuki and she mentioned the demonic misspellings being understandable now because English is, well, English (other languages do not have spelling bees, and now that I think about it, having international competitions where even native speakers are struggling to spell words is a wild concept).

And Shax is actually being so logical when spelling toast as t-o-s-t-e. Especially with the hesitant addition of the e. Here's why.

Because in English, often, the e is added at the end to elongate the vowel sound. This is probably best explained with examples.

Think about how you would have pronounced 'tast' out of context versus taste. The first one has an 'a' sound that resembles apple, right?

(Side note, the double consonant often performs the opposite function of the e, it shortens vowel sounds, like apple vs able. 'Abble' would have a short a and 'aple' would have a long a, which is why they're not spelt that way. Another example where both the e and the double consonant get illustrated perfectly is the word app verses the word ape.)

Also, ad verses -ade (like youtube ad vs lemonade). Right? So toste rather than tost. Shax was operating logically when she added the e.

Except well, English is a fuck-all free-for-all fuck-it-let's-ball language. If you squint at a section it makes sense and then you look at another section and it doesn't at all.

Like cost is short vowel, but coast makes it long, it isn't a 'coste'. So it's actually toast, rather than toste.

But also post doesn't need an e at the end and it's still a long vowel. Caste has an e at the end and is pronounced the same as cast, with the short vowel.

Yeeeeeeep.