Whats the rule that makes "please" pronounced the same as "pleas"?
14.06.2025 06:05
What's (not “whats”) the rule?
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Words are pronounced the way that they're pronounced.
What is the sum of X+XX+XXX+XXXX?
There's no rule.
Whence the <ea> I cannot say but some other words that were spelled <ai> in French are spelled <ea> in English: aise → ease, graisse → grease, fait → feat.
Please is an anglicization of the French word plaisir.
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While you may reasonably ask why words are spelled the way they're spelled, it makes no sense to ask why they're pronounced the way they're pronounced.
Back in the day (circa 1300), it was written <plesen>.
Pleas is spelled <pleas> because it's the plural of pleas.
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