I'd ring that
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It’s called a dictionary, and they’ve been doing it for literally years at this point.
Still won't help if your locality uses a different pronunciation.
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You can live your life to the fullest even if you don't know phonetic alphabet
Can you, though? Can you really?
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What about words that everybody pronounces wrong, such as “nougat”? No, it’s not “new-git”, it’s “new-gah”. I even heard “nugget” from somebody not long ago.
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Or you can look up how to pronounce it. The IPA and often audio pronunciations aren't that hard to find, unless you speak a more obscure language
So many of the audio pronunciations are computer generated, I used to like IPA but then I stopped drinking so it doesn't really help any more.
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What about words that everybody pronounces wrong, such as “nougat”? No, it’s not “new-git”, it’s “new-gah”. I even heard “nugget” from somebody not long ago.
Who the hell pronounced nougat as new-git?
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So many of the audio pronunciations are computer generated, I used to like IPA but then I stopped drinking so it doesn't really help any more.
International phonetic alphabet :3.. though trying to pronounce some of the sounds in it does make you want the other kind of IPA lol
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It's not hyperbole. Lithe communication is the epitome of communication.
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Who the hell pronounced nougat as new-git?
American here: I've never heard it pronouned any other way.
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American here: I've never heard it pronouned any other way.
I figured it'd be america tbh. Not a single word there is pronounced correctly
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Conversely, just fucking go for it. Who even cares? Have a laugh about it!
I think mispronouncing weird words you've worked into your vocab is a nice middle ground between sounding insufferable and approachable. Yes I used ameliorate but I also mangled the hell out of it, so how smart could I really be?
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What about words that everybody pronounces wrong, such as “nougat”? No, it’s not “new-git”, it’s “new-gah”. I even heard “nugget” from somebody not long ago.
if everybody's pronouncing it "wrong" nobody's pronouncing it wrong.
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I figured it'd be america tbh. Not a single word there is pronounced correctly
wrote last edited by [email protected]Not a single word there is pronounced correctly
Not true. We have exactly one word that is pronounced that way.
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Not a single word there is pronounced correctly
Not true. We have exactly one word that is pronounced that way.
Huh. I guess correctly is pronounced correctly lol
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American here: I've never heard it pronouned any other way.
Do you also hear Caramel pronounced as Carmel? I hate that one...
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Do you also hear Caramel pronounced as Carmel? I hate that one...
wrote last edited by [email protected]That one depends on the person. Sometimes it's "care-mul" but others sometimes annunciate the word "carAmel" properly. Especially those in and around Carmel. Because it is not candy.
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a service that could explain how it's pronounced, AND WHY - etymology and local vernacular - would be amazing
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Huh. I guess correctly is pronounced correctly lol
I hate this weird mix between IPA and Latin letters. It's not how this works
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It’s called a dictionary, and they’ve been doing it for literally years at this point.
oh man, asking a kid in this era to look something up in the dictionary is quite the challenge.
In this book? why? why not just look it up online?
BECAUSE GODDAMNIT REASONS AND SHIT
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That one depends on the person. Sometimes it's "care-mul" but others sometimes annunciate the word "carAmel" properly. Especially those in and around Carmel. Because it is not candy.
carmel is a pretty little town... didn't they elect clint eastwood as mayor or something?
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There are two main groups, those who learned their foundational language mainly orally, and those who mainly learned by reading. Those who were readers would read Hermy-own or Hermy-onn because that would match how other similar spellings are pronounced. I was an ambitious reader very early on, so my pronounciations tend to follow spelling rules rather than actual practice
For what it's worth, her name is pronounced differently in different languages. Whereas it's "her-my-nee" in English, it's "Hermine" (long i + schwa-sound for the e at the end) in German and "Гермиона" (Germiona) in Russian
