cheesestraws
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Interesting, if a Latin derivative I think.
More facetious than a serious suggestion :-D. "performare" is Church Latin, but not classical, and doesn't mean "to perform" but "to form thoroughly" or something like that. Think it got back into Church Latin from French, which is where English gets it from too.
However, the combined ae thing doesn’t exist in American English…what is its proper name again?
The sound is a diphthong, the written combination of the letters is a ligature. Think it's valid in AmE, it's just that nobody but me ever types it, really, and I mostly do it to be annoying.