Originally coined as "invcel" around 1997 by a queer Canadian female student known as Alana, the spelling had shifted to "incel" by 1999
Originally coined as "invcel" around 1997 by a queer Canadian female student known as Alana, the spelling had shifted to "incel" by 1999
This is the second TIL about obscure incel information posted by this account in the past few days. What's with the incel research, Don?
Maybe Don Dickle isn't getting their Dickel Donned
As a woman i was wondering about the root causes of it and if it can be stopped because I have a feeling that some Incels will take out their hate for women on a woman.
That's because the shift between the V sound and the S sound is very awkward. When that kind of shift is awkward, dropping one of the sounds entirely (usually the first one) is common.
- Salmon (although there are pockets of people who still pronounce the "l")
- Receipt
- Schedule (was originally pronounced with a "s-ch" combination, now is "sk" in America and "sh" in the UK)
There's plenty of common English words that have also changed spelling to go along with that pronunciation, though I can't recall any at the moment.
Edit: Thought of one: Donut. Yes, the "old-timey" spelling was "doughnut," and is still found in relatively common use. Long ago that "gh" in there was pronounced like a "phlegmmy 'h'." As that sound fell out of use, it eventually fell completely out of the word "donut."
Salmon (although there are pockets of people who still pronounce the “l”)
See, this is a weird one, because I don't know anybody who pronounces the "L" here, but calm, balm, or psalm you would.
Some people make up an L in "both" and pronounce it "bolth". Like an ass.
That’s because the shift between the V sound and the S sound is very awkward.
So you're telling me the original Invcel term couldn't get anyone to accept it?
Isn't that the ultimate irony?
The last one is like you took the word chess and put it in a blender. S-chematic, s-chtick, s-cheme, s-cholar...
Pronouncing schedule like s-chedule is really fun. Not sure I know of any English words that have those two phonemes next to each other
Invcel, indivisible imbecile.
is it me or does this not work on either end