myth
You said Norman French. It's Greek.
How that family writes these sounds
| short /i/ in the middle | y, transliterating υ, where a native word would use imyth, system, syntax, crypt |
What gives it away on the page
| y as a vowel in the middle | Transliterates υ. Native words use i here.myth, system, physics, syntax, crypt |
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