We were also spelling that oo sound as ou, because that's h… - Arika Okrent

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We were also spelling that oo sound as ou, because that's how they spell that sound in French, so it made sense that moon had that spelling but then the spelling didn't make sense anymore after the sound shifted, then it shifted again, but in some places it didn't

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Arika Okrent is an American linguist, known especially for her book In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language, the result of five years of research on the subject of constructed languages.

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