We take it for granted now, but I’m sure we all questioned the word at one point in our lives, the shortest word guaranteed to fool any child who is an intuitive spelling pro if they don’t already know the word’s spelling.
Fun anecdote, in DC the east/west streets are named A St, B St, C St, and so on. But not i street. Capital i could be confused with L Street, so all the signs are written “Eye St”
Ewe, though it’s spelled weird, does at least fit its context. When looking into specific gendered terms for species, someone could expect a few weird ones.
On a side note, I find it funny how the word ewe is banned from several places because all it’s ever used for is to replace the “you” in things like an F-bomb. It’s like an accidental/indirect swear word.
“Hey bro, what’s a female sheep called?”
“Oh that’s easy, it’s ew–” ban hammer crashes down out of nowhere
Eye.
We take it for granted now, but I’m sure we all questioned the word at one point in our lives, the shortest word guaranteed to fool any child who is an intuitive spelling pro if they don’t already know the word’s spelling.
Fun anecdote, in DC the east/west streets are named A St, B St, C St, and so on. But not i street. Capital i could be confused with L Street, so all the signs are written “Eye St”
And as soon as the young spelling pro gets “eye”, throw “ewe” at them.
Ewe, though it’s spelled weird, does at least fit its context. When looking into specific gendered terms for species, someone could expect a few weird ones.
On a side note, I find it funny how the word ewe is banned from several places because all it’s ever used for is to replace the “you” in things like an F-bomb. It’s like an accidental/indirect swear word.
“Hey bro, what’s a female sheep called?”
“Oh that’s easy, it’s ew–” ban hammer crashes down out of nowhere
I was just thinking this, but with the word “one”. And also “two”