schedule [Middle English sedule, slip of parchment or paper, note, from Old French cedule, from Late Latin schedula, diminutive of scheda, variant of Latin scida, papyrus strip, from Greek skhida, skhed; perhaps akin to skhizein, to split. See schizo-]
schizo-[New Latin, from Greek skhizo-, from skhizein, to split. See skei- in Indo-European Roots.]
While I agree with you on proper nouns, I think pronunciation drift in general is a given. How far back would we have to go to find the correct pronunciation? To justify the philosophy, we'd have to be able to discover the original pronunciations, which is impossible. I actually really enjoy languages, dialects, accents and idiomatic speech, and feel the world would be a lesser place if all of these differences vanished.
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