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  • S [email protected]

    I've looked it up a bunch of times and I still don't know if potable is "POTE-ah-bull" or "POT-ah-bull"

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    it's /ˈpoːdəbl/ in American English anyway.

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      Calliope

      Hegemony

      Vitiligo

      These are a few of my recent ones.

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      /ˌkʌːlˈaɪɔpi/

      /hɛdʒˈɛːmʌni/

      /vɪtɪlˈaɪɡoʊ/? I think?

      I kinda suck at IPA.

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        PTSD flashback to my ESL little self always mispronouncing choir after they told me to join to practice my English.

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        Another funny story! An ex of mine was an exchange student in Germany (from Canada) when she was a high schooler, and she attended a children's choir concert where they sang "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", and in the line "you say tomato, I say tomato", they pronounced "tomato" the same way each time.

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        • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksS [email protected]

          Does he say "chaos" with a soft "ch" as well?

          He also pronounces “tome” like “tomb”

          My roommate in college did that. Drove me nuts, but the worst was that he rhymed "epitome" with "tome."

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          No, his chaos is thankfully chaos. It would be kind of fitting if it weren't, though.

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          • R [email protected]

            Oh god yes the jimbles on Mays, I had forgotten about that, every time he would say that my brain would go "the what?" It would suck me right out of immersion every damn time.

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            Having not read this (yet! It's planned) what is the word and how is supposed to be pronounced?

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            • J [email protected]

              I speak spanish and one of the first cultural shocks I had was when I as a kid saw an episode of some sitcom (can't remember) and there where talks of a "spelling bee" a contest to see who could spell correctly, that was so alien to at the time because in spanish there are just a few words that are tricky, because they have some silent H or a P at the beginning but then I started to learn english and it all made sense.

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              "English: if you can spell our words we'll literally give you a fucking trophy and a scholarship"

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              • dharmacurious@slrpnk.netD [email protected]

                Having not read this (yet! It's planned) what is the word and how is supposed to be pronounced?

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                Hard-g; "gimbals" see "gimbal lock"

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                • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksS [email protected]

                  Does that mean the game on PS4 is Bloodbin in Australia?

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                  No because that would be logically consistent

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                    No I will pronounce Latin with guterization so bad it'd make a Catholic priest have an aneurysm. Worst part is it actually sounds close to classical Latin or so I've been told.

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                    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.netD [email protected]

                      Having not read this (yet! It's planned) what is the word and how is supposed to be pronounced?

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                      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimbal

                      There's audio for us and UK here.

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                        But isn't the whole point of that to avoid the "oh sweetie..."?

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                        • B [email protected]

                          Depends on if you had a Greek class with Persephone explained also

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                          It's not pursey phone?

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                            Can't you just type a word into merriam webster and get an audio pronouciation?

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                              Hard-g; "gimbals" see "gimbal lock"

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                              Is this one of those gif - jiff type situations?

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                                Is this one of those gif - jiff type situations?

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                                I don't know what the etymology of "gimbal" is...

                                Looks like the precursor words all use soft-g, and wiktionary even says soft-g is an allowed pronunciation.

                                So, yes, I think.

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                                  Candell-abra is how I was pronouncing it. Yes, I know it's the wrong way

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                                  It's pretty close, sounds like you're just pausing at the wrong spot.

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                                  • J [email protected]

                                    I'm old and I HATE dealing with things on a phone call.

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                                    Old is a relative term, and Lemmy is an echo chamber of tech-literate people.

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                                      Can't you just type a word into merriam webster and get an audio pronouciation?

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                                      Typing requires thumbs; something only primates have.

                                      ...another thing that (some) primates have is an island where rich people go to molest children.

                                      Some of these primates are greedy and/or terrible primates, and they don't want you to look up any connection between a primate named Trump and a primate named Epstein (spoiler alert, those primates rape underaged primates and brag about it to each other).

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                                      • D [email protected]

                                        Someone didn't watch The Expanse.

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                                        I read it though

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                                          Someone didn't watch The Expanse.

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                                          I learned how to pronounce Nguyen from that show.

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