How to pronounce “unhelpfully” in English

we might mean it to mean abundant and heartfelt or perhaps overdone and insincere.That might seem unhelpfully confusing, calling out for some authority figure to come and legislate as to which the correct meaning of the word is.You know, the OED, perhaps, should tell us, use it this way, not that way.

And in fact, there's some historical precedent here, too.Because the "its" pronoun was first introduced in English in the 17th century to replace the earlier pronoun "his," which, rather unhelpfully, overlappedwith the masculine possessive pronoun, also "his." And because it was formed by taking the subject pronoun "it" and adding the S genitive singular ending,