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Whats the rule that makes "please" pronounced the same as "pleas"?

12.06.2025 02:04

Whats the rule that makes "please" pronounced the same as "pleas"?

Back in the day (circa 1300), it was written <plesen>.

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.

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What's (not “whats”) the rule?

There's no rule.

Pleas is spelled <pleas> because it's the plural of pleas.

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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.

Please is an anglicization of the French word plaisir.

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