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  • Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldtruex
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    6 days ago

    There is an old explanation for this. I asked my French teacher a while ago.

    The old French language was written like you pronounce it. During the renaissance, they got into classicism and made the language resemble Latin. Hence tan became temps from the Latin tempus.