What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by BunScientist@lemmy.zip)) Edit: it's to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

what if we just change the past tense to red? simpler?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    People already struggle with 'led' being the past tense of "lead". It seems like quite a few people extend the "read/read" rule to "lead".

    In other words, I don't know if that would actually solve anything 😅

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