A choir is a chorus of singers.
It comes from the Greek root khoros.
Although it comes from the old French word, quer, its roots are more in the present spelling.
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Quer, not to be confused with those that make up a choir, queers.
And see, this it's why it's choir.
Thanks to dwarf fortress I know a quire is a medieval folded paper book
By the time I got paper things going, everyone was dying to were creatures. Did make soap though, if only that could clean bite wounds enough, alas.
may i...inquire... why you believe this?
Fuck q, kwire
Preech
Or kwyer
Why isn’t “laugh” spelled “laf?”
My kid’s TED talk.
I'm more partial to an entirely new alphabet,
F/f - For
U/u - Oopse
U̇/u̇ - Up
Uṙ/uṙ - Nurse
Uı/uı - I
UE/ᵫ - Book
Þ/þ - Thanks
Ð/ð - The
O/o - Oh
Ȯ/ȯ - On
Ou/ou - Out
Ouṙ/ouṙ - our
Oṙ/oṙ - Or
Oı/oı - Oil
Œ/œ - "Oh" isolate
Œṙ/œṙ - "oer the ramparts we watched"
Œı/œı - owing vs boing
Ṙ/ṙ - Earth
R/r - Read
K/k - Court
C/c - She
Q/q - Quick
G/g - Go
Gq/gq - Gwen
Gx/gx - Ghurfa
V/v - Of
W/w - With
H/h - He
X/x - loch
N/n - Negation
Ny/ny - ñapa
I/ı - Eat
Iṙ/ıṙ - Ear
Y/y - You
İ/i- In
P/p - Park
S/ſ - So
Z/z - Is
T/t - To
Tc/tc - Check
B/b - Be
E/e - Elder
Ė/ė - A
Eı/eı - Acre
Eıṙ/eıṙ - Air
M/m - Me
L/l - Like
Ŋ/ŋ - Ring
D/d - Do
Dj/dj - Jacket
A/a - All
Au/au - Awe
Aṙ/aṙ - Are
Aı/aı - Sky
Aıṙ/aıṙ - Ire
Æ/æ - And
J/j - Genre
Eklızıæstiku̇ſ, 34:18-21
Humevṙ givz æz tceıritı, gᵫdz ðeı hæv teıkin buı foṙſ oṙ buı diſȯniſtı, ðeıṙ doneıcėnz aṙ ȯbſın; ðeıṙ giftſ aṙ ė ceımfėl mȯkṙı v djenṙȯſitı.
Benevolenſ diteſtſ tceıritı givin buı blu̇dı hændz; no ėmount n'oṙ vælyu given buı ſu̇tc ſṙvz t ėpız ð huıeſt.
Humevṙ teıkſ wėt litėl filz ð ſtoṙz v ð diſfoṙtcund, ðei d ð ſeım æz wu̇n hu mṙdṙz ð tcuıld bifoṙ ðeıṙ peırent'ſ uız.
Đ fᵫd v ð disfoṙtcund z ðeıṙ luıfblu̇d, ænd humevṙ difrȯdz ðem v it, ðeıṙ hændz aŗ ſteınd red; al ð seim æz eni mṙdṙṙ oṙ brut v difrint mınz.
Levitiku̇ſ, 19:33-34
Wen ė forinṙ livz ėmėŋgſt Y, i yoṙ kėntcrı, dn miſtcrıt ðem. Ðiſ pṙſėn livıŋ ėmėŋgſt Y mu̇ſt bı tcrıtėd æz yoṙ on. Lu̇v æ d u̇ntu yoṙ neıbṙ æz Y wᵫd yoṙſelf.
R fully becomes a semi vowel same as U to W or I to Y, several grammar words get Shavian style abbreviations for brevity, and where french has accents, spanish has the ñ, and german has umlauts, the expanded english vowels have single dots the way lower case i already does.
Mate just use IPA, at that point.
IPA is less readable, also this is an orthographic alphabet, the true letter count is much smaller, and it actually gets even smaller if you use the "sloppy" version, which is basically just grabbing an Alphabet language Gboard for þ ð ŋ and ſ, using ue oe and ae as needed, and using u o i e a as you would their dotted (or undotted in i's case) counterparts and just hoping context makes clear what the literal text doesn't necessarily.
You designed this for GBoard?
That explains it, I guess...
Would you believe me if I told you that the dot letters were actually what made up the majority of what isn't in the keyboard normally?
This is awful and you need to stop right now.
Qit haṙcıŋ muı tcil bro.
Went through the whole thing expecting to speak German, was very disappointed.
I mean English is a germanic language, not too surprising how german phonemic spelling would look considering how much of our fucked up current system is owed to trying to make loan words consistent with their language of origin.
You mean like a cuirass?
Curious the query as curiass.
Or in Shavian, 𐑒𐑢𐑲𐑼
Why not just start pronouncing it shwar instead?
Or kor like in german
That's also a possibility
But why not Quoir so everyone is slightly uncomfortable when reading it?