-- Posted by ElephantStone at 10:14 am on May 11, 2008 i was just working away at my french and i looked in my dictionary to see what the french word for answer is (which is "reponse" if youre interested) and it struck me: Why the hell is the letter "w" in the word answer? Where did it come from? -- Posted by Latin Muscle at 10:16 am on May 11, 2008 Good question -- Posted by Change The World1990 at 10:16 am on May 11, 2008 The world would implode on itself if that question was answered...just let it go -- Posted by Bobster the Lobster at 10:17 am on May 11, 2008 Hmmm, the many mysteries of our grammatically incorrect language. -- Posted by Torpid Kitten at 10:18 am on May 11, 2008 I'm still trying to figure out why it's 'Phoenix' and not 'Pheonix' =/ -- Posted by idontgivea at 9:52 pm on May 13, 2008 most Germanic languages are like that. German and English both have words that are pronouced differntly than spelled. such as in  German  Guten abend (good evening) is prounuced in English alphabet as Gooten Ahhbent. It dont even make since in the German Alphabet much less the English one. And the German word UND (and) is prounouced oont in the English alphabet. what the fuck where these people thinking when they made these languages?