problems with wordigles

Viani

So, race -> ????tive ad-verb = Racial

AKA

Race Perk, Racial Perk

So, I thought Species was a ????tive ad-verb to the word "Speciei"

Species Perk, ???? Perk

And then I realized that's what the word Special was invented for.

God damn it why am I bad at this



Also, I call this wordigles because I am so bad with wordigles I don't even know what the proper description of the above event is called. taxonomical shenanigans?

glennmagusharvey

I think the issue is that "species" and "special" are pronounced very differently.

Blame it on English's inconsistent pronunciation.

Sredni Vashtar

They are from the same root, but they came into the language very differently. "Special" is an aphetisation of the word "especial," which is French; "species" is directly from Latin, thus resulting in no vowel shortening.

I think that the word would probably be "special," but with a different pronunciation, but I am not sure...