There are no political assassinations in Russia. But we do have unfortunate accidents that hopefully others will notice and learn from.
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As a French speaker, this is one of the words that reminds me about the dropped "s" and the change in pronunciation over the centuries. We still say fenestration to talk about the windows of a building, but those are now called fenêtres, without the s in the middle. Same for words like veste (vest) and vêtements (clothes). Or foresterie (working in forests) and forêt (forest). Or fête (feast) and festoyer (feasting).
There is a whole bunch of words now written with a circumflex accent that were written and pronounced with the "s", like défenestrer.
More about those words here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex_in_French#Disappearance_of_%22s%22
RobWords on youtube mentions the dropped s several times. If you like well-articulated word lore, he's pretty great. Maybe this one but there are a few that relate to the French language.
Edit: It's this one
It'll always sound like something to do with forests and trees to me. Don't know why.
Some plant leaves will develop fenestrations, or openings/windows in the leaves, including some of the more popular houseplants. Monstera, for example.
Y'know, I actually learned some Latin as an altar boy and took it as a high school course for two years.
Plus 10 years of school French.
So, I believe you've got something there, thanks!
Fenest sounds a bit like forest. Might be because of that.
Try the Tactical Breach Wizards demo on Steam.
I hadn't heard of this yet, amazing
The 2 other games from the défenestration trilogy are pretty good too.