I'd ring that
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I pronounced Tagalog tag-uh-log for years until I met my Filipino wife. Tuh-gah-log.
Yeah, that's my favorite girl scout cookie!
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I love that she realized it and saved everyone in book four. It was hard to undo three books of incorrect pronunciation.
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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
I just wouldn't think to look up a word I assumed I was pronouncing correctly. I'm pretty good at this reading thing, and so I apply the standards, but words like epitome and ethereal are just here to fuck with us.
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what about pote-ah-bull
That is what I was going for with my first option, I am just bad at phonics
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It's not hyperbole. Lithe communication is the epitome of communication.
The hyperbole is even bigger than the Superbowl.
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cal lie o pee? Think I got that one.
Haver never heard hegemony spoken aloud.
Jesus, I've been saying vih tag lio.
Yeah youve got the first one.
It's hedge em en ee. It's a weird one.
I just had to re-look up the pronunciation for vitiligo and I've been so far off too. My pronunciation has been vit ill ih go. But it's vit ih LIE go ?
Words are dumb, hahahaha
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hedge-uh-moe-knee?
That's what I thought too, but nope
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The "c" in Pacific Ocean is pronounced 3 different ways.
Great - now I have another fun fact to annoy my colleagues with.
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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.
We have bees, and we also have really long, ancient words that no one uses or remembers like pulchritudinous, which means physical beauty or Myrmecophilous which is fond of ants.
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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.
What’s even the point of nihilism then
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Let me drop this on fleek resource: www.forvo.com The Pronunciation Dictionary. Longtime user. Ya just search the word, and get results from people all over the world saying it in their native tongue with country specified. It's great. Hearing Americans say Gouda (a Dutch town famous for the cheese) is like taking a cheese grater to my balls. No, it is not "Goo-dah" of you. Repent!
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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"
wrote last edited by [email protected]The first one, as it comes from the Latin "potare," "to drink." Sure, we could use "drinkable" instead, but too many people would understand how to say it and what it meant.
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hedge-uh-moe-knee?
For the record, I like this one better.
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The "c" in Pacific Ocean is pronounced 3 different ways.
Pasifis Osun
Pakifik Okun
Pashifish Oshun
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I love that she realized it and saved everyone in book four. It was hard to undo three books of incorrect pronunciation.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Hermy-won Granger.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]"kazum" is acceptable in my book. "Toom" is strange for a book though.
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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.
That's what happens when you mash several languages together. A lot of English terms have a Latin-derived and Germanic-derived word meaning the same thing.
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I am American and I said "Gowda".
That right?
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Well ... what is it then? If you don't tell me I'm gonna keep pronouncing it with my Minnesotan accent!
