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		perching_aix 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assi... They said: > Except when it comes to names when it gets a bit random! The letters "gy", "ty", and "ly" are not exclusive to names, nor are they significantly more common in names. It's not that I disagree people would struggle with these, just that it's not unique to names, so it couldn't have been what they were referring to there.

int_19h 28 days ago [–]

My implicit point was that this:

> The only weird ones I can think of are the ones that end in -y. For example, Görgey. They're meant to be -i endings.

is not actually surprising to an English speaker.

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