Post #1195529
2025-12-20 20:09 UTC
@resuna yea, phase/faze confusion always tweaks me, but I expect the distinction to be gone a century from now. "faze" doesn't feel like an english word, it's a weird irregularity that isn't old enough or common enough to become normalized
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@resuna@ohai.social 2025-12-20 20:13
@gray17 Do you mean it doesn't sound like an American word? It sounds more British like connexion.
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@electropict@mastodon.scot 2025-12-20 20:36
@gray17 @resuna "Etymology From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English fēsen [...] Old English fēsan, fȳsan [...] from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną [...] from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). [...] Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start in 1830..." -- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faze 🤷