#I quietly repeat shch to myself just to remind myself it's a thing

[gailyinthedark]

I used to have a Latin professor who was Polish by birth and because there were only four of us in the class he could sometimes be persuaded to spend a class teaching us about Polish instead of Latin, which is how I learned that shch is a normal consonant cluster in some languages and to this day I consider that one of the most blessed facts I have ever encountered