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Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 12.10.2024 19:20

 AH>
 AK>> How would you write it "Milne" or "Miln" if you never saw
 AK>> it written.
 AH>
 AH>> Well, it does rhyme with "kiln"... so if I'd never seen or
 AH>> heard this name before I might employ the latter until I had
 AH>> time to investigate further.
 AH>
 AK>> It remains to me only to wonder about the English language
 AK>> evolution. How on earth you put a letter into the word and
 AK>> don't pronounce this letter. ;)
 AH>
 AH> In some cases at least a word has been adopted from a
 AH> Scandinavian or  northern European language & we've trimmed
 AH> a few inflections etc. :-))
 AH>

In other words, in "Milne" and other similar cases you can put a letter for no
reason and which has no any sense. Very probably this tricks came from French
which is far ahead in this area.

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2024

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