For me it is the “fall of the Berlin wall” and the celebrations after the border openings.
the KT impact
The problem with most major historical events is that they’re not fun. I would choose Field of the Cloth of Gold because it was just a big festival for weeks.
Seeing the first person to spell subtle with a b
It didn’t use to, the b was added back in cause the Latin word has one and making words look like Latin was all the rage at one point.
At least “subtle” is ultimately from Latin, and the Latin word (subtilis) does have a /b/.
There are worse cases - like the “s” in “island”. It was never pronounced.
English got fucked… hard… because so many of the spellings came from people that had weird goals.
Consider phial. Why do we spell it that way? Because some jackass decided that english needed to be more latiny and ph is more latiny than v. (or maybe it was greek? I don’t remember the exact etymology)
Anglish is an attempt to reverse that, and remove Latin, Greek, and French words from English.
If I can experience it without dying, I’d say the asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs.
Not a major event, but there’s a number of football ⚽ matches I wish I could have been at, not least the 1961 and 1968 Scottish Cup finals.
