> In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh
No, it's not. Unless you think the "n" in french is pronounced "nt".
Fine, and legit. I get what I deserve for not looking it up!
Scaramouch and crochet though.
Sure, and cache and cloche.
But the question here is chs, not ch. Which though rare, is widely understood to be a kind of guttural sound or "k" sound followed by an s. In -uchs or -ichs coming from German.
Not the "sh" sound in fuchsia.
Damn, I always thought Fuchsia is just a colour, but today I learned
- Fuchsia is a flower
- which is named after a German botanist (Leonhart Fuchs)
- Fuchsia in English is pronounced completely different than in German.
- Google is surprisingly bad at naming their products> In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh
It's not, though.
In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh and nobody bats an eye, I don't think it's that outlandish that someone once read it as fuch-sia, incorrectly splitting it compared to the original.
In the language French, fuchsia is unequivocally read something more like few-shia, and I'd bet that even though it comes from German Fuchs-ia (fooks-ia) English has picked it up from the French side.
If you find such a loanword weird, don't you dare try reading Japanese.
https://aethermug.com/posts/the-beautiful-dissociation-of-th...