I'd ring that
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Like the episode of Family Guy when Ian McKellen says "con-TRAH-versy" and Stewie says, "Oh, a CON-tra-versy!" in his fake British accent, to which he replies, "Apologies. Those of us with British accents pronounce it 'con-TRAH-versy.' But how would you know that?"
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The New York Public Library has Dial 917-ASK-NYPL (917-275-6975) to connect with librarians via phone Monday through Saturday from 10 AM to 6 PM. Available in English and español.
In fact I would wager almost any library would work for this. Librarians are by and large the most helpful and I judgmental people I have ever met. Every single interaction I've ever had with them has been positive.
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SAY IT RIGHT DUTCHIE"Gow-deh! Gow-deh!"
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Benefit of living in Australia is that every word is pronounced wrong so it doesn't matter how you say it.
Can't even pronounce our second largest city right lol. Melbourne became Melbin
Does that mean the game on PS4 is Bloodbin in Australia?
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I had the misfortune of pronouncing rapping as raping in front of the class when I was 13
Like the post I saw once where a woman wrote she raped her little sister to help her sleep (with a picture of a baby wrapped in a blanket).
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It's not hyperbole. Lithe communication is the epitome of communication.
I disagree with the word hyperbole. In speech, it comflicts with the namespace of -ly words and always sounds like an adverb, which derails my parsing. In writing, it conflits with the namespace of nouns like hole, pole, console, casserole, and letrozole. The only -ole word that I know that doesn't sound like this is guacamole, which doesn't sound like an adverb.
It's a word actively harmful to my understanding and should be stricken from the language. Just use hyperbolic.
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Hermy-one
Hermi wan Kenerbi, yer me ernly herp!
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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.
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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I've heard "chasm" pronounced as both "chaz-um" and "kaz-um"
The correct one is "kaz-um," just like "chaos" isn't "chay-oss."
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Candelabra
wrote last edited by [email protected]How can it be read incorrectly? "Can-della-bra?"
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Then can we force SciFi audiobook narrators to use it?
Ray Porter, I love you to fucking death, but you kill me sometimes....
I loved The Expanse, and Jefferson Mays is amazing
But "jimbals" drove me crazy
For Ray Porter, his inability to pronounce "Archimedes" was bad enough they made him go back and re-record a book.
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Over time, that is what normally happens to language (even French, yeah looking at you Gauls).
But, English and especially North American English is so predominate in the world, that may stop its otherwise natural development.
/not a linguist just friends with some.
Even French? a lot of the horribly spelled words in English are their fault!
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English has the problem of taking words literally from other languages including the pronunciation.
Kindergarden - > German. The I gets pronounced differently.
Tibia - > Latin. Fuck who knows how it is pronounced, just do what you want.
Bureaucracy - > French. Yeah well the French hate people who want to learn their language, I guess. Nothing is written like it is pronounced
Kindergarden - > German. The I gets pronounced differently.
Tinder.
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surely it should be "wound" anyway?
"Woond?"
"No, Wownd!"
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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.
I can't imagine "ethereal" being pronounced any other way than the correct one. "Etha-real?"
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Better to corrected than let things get too awry.
Awry.
Awwww-reeeeeeeeeeee..........It had the quality of being awr. It was awry.
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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.
If you want to change pronunciations to be closer to the original language the word derives from, you'd be changing most of English.
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Who the hell pronounced nougat as new-git?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Americans. Probably Canadians, too. Although it's more "-gut" than "-git."
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Do you also hear Caramel pronounced as Carmel? I hate that one...
That's a regional thing in the US. I've always pronounced the second a.
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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"
I say it the first way. I'll fight anyone who says otherwise.
