I'd ring that
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According to the website (and Wikipedia) it's supposed to sound more like "How-da" with the "how" sounding like you're gearing up to spit on someone. And then other-non English speaking countries do pronounce the g very distinctly, but they still relatively follow the vowel pronunciation and sound like "Go-dah" as in "Go dad" (but if dad changed to dah)
Basically Americans are the only ones who say Gouda like "Goo-dah"
In the interest of not being bullied by my friends, I'm gonna continue to say it the American way because I don't wanna be bullied. My Filipino friends still make fun of how I said "Pancit" incorrectly ONE TIME.
They say it that way because in the US that's how it's pronounced. The argument that it's pronounced differently in other countries, so the US way is wrong, is stupid. Even within a language/country, there are regional dialects.
I grew up in the US, but my dad was from England. There were lots of times I said a word the way I had always heard my dad say it, only to have people correct my mispronunciation. The one that pops into my head was capillaries (the little blood vessels). My dad always said ca-PILL-ah-rees, not CA-puh-lar-rees. Neither is wrong, it's just pronounced differently here and there.
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I figured it'd be america tbh. Not a single word there is pronounced correctly
You're joking, right? Under what standard are words in American English pronounced incorrectly? I mean, let's just take this example:
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For me, this was Ganymede.
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Someone was telling me about Hermy-own in Harry Potter, and it took me a minute to realize it was Hermione.
I knew a girl who was raised in a small town in the middle of nowhere, without TV or movies, but she read a lot. She had so many things like that. Yosemite rhymed with hose-mite.
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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.
Just the fact that we can have a whole contest around the idea, and that there's still room for words contestants haven't seen before, illustrates just how insane English is.
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My buddy says "chasm" with a soft ch. We've tried to correct him. He doesn't hear us. He also pronounces "tome" like "tomb".
We play DnD together if anyone was wondering why these words would come up with any regularity.
I've heard "chasm" pronounced as both "chaz-um" and "kaz-um"
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how did you say it? Amelly-or-ate?
A-mealio-rate
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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.
Apparently "nihilism" is meant to be pronounced like "nee-hilism", but if you say it like that, nobody knows what the fuck you're trying to say.
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Who the hell pronounced nougat as new-git?
Milky Way candy bar commercials in the US?
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Milky Way candy bar commercials in the US?
Can we just disconnect the whole country from the internet? Too many weird things coming out of there /hj
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Can we just disconnect the whole country from the internet? Too many weird things coming out of there /hj
Did you just offer me a handjob?
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Did you just offer me a handjob?
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i pronounced "Ascendancy" with a dance in the middle and "Achievement" with a sound like a hissing cat instead of "chief".
I know better now, but i caused some laughs.
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I heard that in the US, every business needs to have a publicly listed phone number, not to mention the number of times I see "TEXT ... TO ..." or "CALL ..." displayed more prominently than the URL on ads. Why do they still do so much over the phone?
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Nice save
I like to save the handjobs till at least the first date uwu
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I heard that in the US, every business needs to have a publicly listed phone number, not to mention the number of times I see "TEXT ... TO ..." or "CALL ..." displayed more prominently than the URL on ads. Why do they still do so much over the phone?
IF you're thinking that's a legal thing, it is not. In my experience it's the opposite. Companies obscure their phone number because taking calls costs more than dealing with a chat or email.
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For me, this was Ganymede.
ganny meade? gahny meade? Don't hold out on us!
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taught
Why the hell have a gh if it’s silent? English is screwy
To distinguish it from taut which is pronounced the exact same way.
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In finnish it's the same and I've even had the same experience! We write almost completely phonetically so something like "spelling bee" is an insane thought. English writing system is basically abstract at this point and you just need to learn to pronounce each individual word lmao
The "c" in Pacific Ocean is pronounced 3 different ways.
