Talk:Warspite/@comment-112.198.72.139-20160902025049/@comment-25938809-20160902094023

 Well, it's understandable, Kenji. Some TTKs want a reason to believe their RN waifu's weird pronunciation is correct, because goddamn it, basically EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT HER IS. I was in the same boat, but learning that the dictionary entry was misleading is what swayed me. Occam's razor took care of the rest.

Cantkorre, yes, the origin word is arabic. I'm not sure how the English pronunciation supposedly veered off from the original Arabic, and later Old French's "mii" sounds, to "my" ...and then back to "mii/mih" again? I'm no etymologist and could be missing something huge, but it seems the base word's pronunciation seems fairly consistent across time and languages.