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Why is this happening to me?! (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Okay, S and Q I kinda get, but what the heck happened with R?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

These came from a sort of “this sounds like” alphabet. Like if you wanted to write D but drew a picture of a dog, because that starts with a D sound. Or when someone on the phone says “A as in Adam.”

So the word for dude with a tiny hat started with an R sound, just like the word for the A sounded like an A sound.