city
You said Old Norse. It's Norman French.
How that family writes these sounds
| /s/ before e, i, or y | c — the soft-c convention is Romance, and Old English had no use for itcity, cell, pencil |
What gives it away on the page
| c said as /s/ before e, i, y | The soft-c convention is Romance; Old English had no use for it.city, cell, cycle, pencil |
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