• starlinguk@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    That’s not because of the spelling but because of the language. Just like Indonesian, the language doesn’t distinguish between f and p, because they’re basically the same letter (one is a plosive and one is a fricative but that’s it). In Indonesian you’ll hear fancake and coppee, for example.