Whats the rule that makes "please" pronounced the same as "pleas"?
Last Updated: 19.06.2025 06:46
There's no rule.
You'll usually find your answer there.
Whence the <ea> I cannot say but some other words that were spelled <ai> in French are spelled <ea> in English: aise → ease, graisse → grease, fait → feat.
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Back in the day (circa 1300), it was written <plesen>.
While you may reasonably ask why words are spelled the way they're spelled, it makes no sense to ask why they're pronounced the way they're pronounced.
What's (not “whats”) the rule?
Why am I so unproductive when it's a holiday the next day?
Please is an anglicization of the French word plaisir.
If you're curious about why a word is spelled the way it's spelled, your first recourse should be etymonline dot com.
Words are pronounced the way that they're pronounced.
How would you describe modern day Russian society, beyond just politics?
Pleas is spelled <pleas> because it's the plural of pleas.