I agree that this is an unpopular opinion.
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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Why would "comsomb" rhyme with "womb" and not "bomb?" "Consume" derives from Latin. Your opinion lacks basic understanding of etymology.
I want “womb” to rhyme with “bomb”
I want it to rhyme with comb. Comb should be spelled "come", and come should be spelled... well, you know.
I think you’re on to sombthing
I want bomb to rhyme with womb. Boom!
If it did then the word would sound like the noise it makes. I approve
Next you'll say that "fish" should be spelled "ghoti"
Actually I prefer it’d be spelled F̴͍͙̙̱͙͂͜ͅͅͅI̵̡̛̭͉̳͎̱̝̮̙̗͐̾̌͋̿̿̕S̷̢̧̧̧̩̤̼̦̰̟̟͇̤̙̻̈́̈̂́̽̈̓͂̉̊͋͂͐̍̈̅̿̕̚͘͜͝͝ͅḨ̶̥̼͕̭̈́͛̏͗͗͆̍͗̎́́̈́̍͆̋͐̉̊̈́̅͘̚͘͠͠
Okay great, now I'm down a rabbit hole about wombats with their double uteri, triple vaginas, and backwards pouches, because I looked up "wombat womb" ....
Ingliš šud bi vriten fonetikli beisd on mai languadž end vets ve only korekt opinion /j
proper english :3
English should be written phonetically based on my language and that's the only correct opinion
Resomb, legomb, plomb, flomb...
Do you presume to consume consommé with a spoon in a cwm. Asking for Theodor Geisel.
Idk about you but where I'm from the b is pronounced in womb. Same with comb. Its kinda just cut off though. So like buh without the uh. There's no b sound in consume.
Checked your comment history out of curiosity and I see you’re in Australia! I’m in the US and the b sound is dropped in both words here
Wild, I had no idea, I just assumed you were saying it with the b, never occurred to me that you guys just don't pronounce the b at all.
I was born and currently live in the US and pronounce the b in both words. I thought everyone did.
I'm in the US as well and pronounce the b.
Woom objects to your opinion.
Fuck your opinion, clearly womb-ists need to die, wume-ism is the only truth!
You're trying to apply logic where none exists
Edit: are you huffing fombs?
Whut?
I think womb should be the one that should be changed
Fume flume plume resume legume volume perfume presume costume exhume...
Fomb, flomb, plomb, resomb, legomb, volomb, perfomb, presomb, costomb, exomb...
I don't see the problem here. All perfectly readable.
Do they rhyme with comb, tomb, or bomb? Readable ≠ Meaningful
Yes
Yes? I spell it jiac
just compounding problems.
konsoom.
woom.
English is dumb.
Consoom gang rise up
Agree.
Just switch both to either oo or uu, because US English speakers are confused by ö and ü.
Consoom / Woom
Consuum / Wuum
Drop the "ends with e or b changes the vowel sound, for some reason, sometimes" nonsense.
Omblaut
i kinda get it actually
I mean, feel free to spell it that way, just be prepared for annoyed snarky people
*Eye meen feal free too spell it that whey, just bee prepeared four anouied snarkie peepole
Why not consoom? Like zoom?
You and I certainly pronounce either "consume" or "womb" very differently if those words rhyme for you 😂 where are you from, out of curiosity? No judgement, just curious as I'm not sure I've ever heard an accent where those words rhyme!
It has to do with the word coming from French to English. There isn't a b sound in the French word. Sometimes, the weird spellings harken back to French loan words.
My guess is that English speakers spoke it with an accent and it eventually morphed into the modern English pronunciation
There is coxcomb pronounced coxcoom. If that helps.
So it's an anglicized latin dingus?
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