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Lesson 26

Why are many English words ending in “-t” written in Hangeul as ㅅ? 

Coconut is written in Korean as 코코넛, the Internet is written as 인터넷, and robot is written as 로봇, all with ㅅ at the end instead of ㅌ. 

Why is ㅌ, which is roughly more similar to “t” than ㅅ, not used in these words? Hyunwoo answers this question in today’s Q&A video.