Why Polish looks like a typo and they won't fix it

Polish spells one sound with four letters, and it does that on purpose. 29.3% of all Polish words contain sz, cz or rz — so why has Polish never replaced those digraphs with single letters the way Czech, Ukrainian and almost every other Slavic language did? The answer isn't laziness. It's a printing press, three partitions, a banned language, and an empire that tried to force Polish into Cyrillic. By the time Poland could finally reform its own spelling, keeping the "messy" letters had become the point. We also count how many Polish words end in a hard consonant, look at why sz can't just become š, and settle the biggest Polish language meme on the internet. ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:00 Super epic intro 01:10 We counted every word in the dictionary 01:29 How Ukrainian solved it 02:07 The printing press: Czech vs Polish 02:28 Czechia reforms. Poland can't. 02:44 Russia tries to force Polish into Cyrillic 03:19 Was it worth it? 03:38 Why some Slavs use Cyrillic and others don't 03:46 Poland reunites — and changes nothing 04:04 Why sz can't just become š 04:39 Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz #Polish #Linguistics #Languages