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mother_russia

 Why is it called “vacuum” why are there two U’s next to each other????
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Anonymous 52w

Important question we must all ponder 🤔

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Anonymous 52w

bc it’s from the latin vacuus where vacu- is the root and -us is the neuter declension ending

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Anonymous 52w

If there was only one u it would be pronounced va-cum

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Anonymous 52w

We could always be like bi’ish “peopol” and call them Hoovers

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 52w

Ahhh that’s a fair point. The double vowel to pronounce the vowel makes sense, I just don’t think I’ve seen a word that has two u’s together before vacuum

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 52w

Interesting!

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Anonymous replying to -> mother_russia 52w

I haven’t either

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