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left-struck • today at 2:04 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I wonder why the e is needed on the end of knife or nyfe. Seems to me the way you pronounce it would be the same with or without


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gnabgib • today at 2:09 AM

niff without the e. (see: life, wife, fife, strife) The k is arguable (but you can find eloquent people who enunciate it)

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lowdownbutter • today at 3:01 AM

but that's the magic e.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI9hHo9_QB8