It should be spelled "consomb," not "consume".

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We don’t write “womb” as “wume”.

I want it to be spelled “consomb”.

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I agree that this is an unpopular opinion.

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Why would “comsomb” rhyme with “womb” and not “bomb?” “Consume” derives from Latin. Your opinion lacks basic understanding of etymology.

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I want “womb” to rhyme with “bomb”

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I want it to rhyme with comb. Comb should be spelled “come”, and come should be spelled… well, you know.

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I think you’re on to sombthing

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I want bomb to rhyme with womb. Boom!

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If it did then the word would sound like the noise it makes. I approve

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Next you’ll say that “fish” should be spelled “ghoti”

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Actually I prefer it’d be spelled F̴͍͙̙̱͙͂͜ͅͅͅI̵̡̛̭͉̳͎̱̝̮̙̗͐̾̌͋̿̿̕S̷̢̧̧̧̩̤̼̦̰̟̟͇̤̙̻̈́̈̂́̽̈̓͂̉̊͋͂͐̍̈̅̿̕̚͘͜͝͝ͅḨ̶̥̼͕̭̈́͛̏͗͗͆̍͗̎́́̈́̍͆̋͐̉̊̈́̅͘̚͘͠͠

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Okay great, now I’m down a rabbit hole about wombats with their double uteri, triple vaginas, and backwards pouches, because I looked up “wombat womb” ….

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Ingliš šud bi vriten fonetikli beisd on mai languadž end vets ve only korekt opinion /j

proper english :3

English should be written phonetically based on my language and that’s the only correct opinion

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Resomb, legomb, plomb, flomb…

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Idk about you but where I’m from the b is pronounced in womb. Same with comb. Its kinda just cut off though. So like buh without the uh. There’s no b sound in consume.

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Checked your comment history out of curiosity and I see you’re in Australia! I’m in the US and the b sound is dropped in both words here

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Wild, I had no idea, I just assumed you were saying it with the b, never occurred to me that you guys just don’t pronounce the b at all.

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I was born and currently live in the US and pronounce the b in both words. I thought everyone did.

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I’m in the US as well and pronounce the b.

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Do you presume to consume consommé with a spoon in a cwm. Asking for Theodor Geisel.

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You’re trying to apply logic where none exists

Edit: are you huffing fombs?

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Woom objects to your opinion.

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Fuck your opinion, clearly womb-ists need to die, wume-ism is the only truth!

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just compounding problems.

konsoom.

woom.

English is dumb.

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Fume flume plume resume legume volume perfume presume costume exhume…

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Fomb, flomb, plomb, resomb, legomb, volomb, perfomb, presomb, costomb, exomb…

I don’t see the problem here. All perfectly readable.

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Do they rhyme with comb, tomb, or bomb? Readable ≠ Meaningful

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Consoom gang rise up

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Agree.

Just switch both to either oo or uu, because US English speakers are confused by ö and ü.

Consoom / Woom

Consuum / Wuum

Drop the “ends with e or b changes the vowel sound, for some reason, sometimes” nonsense.

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Omblaut

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I think womb should be the one that should be changed

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i kinda get it actually

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You and I certainly pronounce either “consume” or “womb” very differently if those words rhyme for you 😂 where are you from, out of curiosity? No judgement, just curious as I’m not sure I’ve ever heard an accent where those words rhyme!

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It has to do with the word coming from French to English. There isn’t a b sound in the French word. Sometimes, the weird spellings harken back to French loan words.

My guess is that English speakers spoke it with an accent and it eventually morphed into the modern English pronunciation

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Why not consoom? Like zoom?

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I mean, feel free to spell it that way, just be prepared for annoyed snarky people

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*Eye meen feal free too spell it that whey, just bee prepeared four anouied snarkie peepole

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