Bernie Sanders keeps saying Ol-ah-gawky but I thought it was o-la-garky?
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Have I been mis-prouncing it this whole time? English is not my first language I am French. I am talking about Oligarchy
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No, you're right. It's just how it sounds with Sanders' distinct accent.
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Bernie has a very strong Brooklyn accent, but either pronunciation is totally fine.
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You say to mah to, I say to may to... we both agree that we need to tear down this unjust vegetal system and sing Les Marseilles while we do it.
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I’ve been pronouncing it all-e-glucky
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Bernie Sanders can pronounce it however the fuck he wants, with as thick of a brooklyn accent as he wants.
He has earned at least that much lol
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Most words will sound different every few miles. There are countless regional accents, meaning there is no right or wrong. I'm northern Irish and I say mir instead of mirror. It's wrong but it's not wrong, if you know what I mean.
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You should hear how us mountain folk pronounce it.
Awl-uh-garky, or all-uh-gurky are the two most common at my shooting club (and yes, left wing shooting clubs exist in the south, even here in the sticks).
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Some east coast areas, like where Sanders is from, inherited non-rhoticity from England. The “r” is pronounced in most US accents.
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Hey cool thanks for this! Love learning about language and have never even heard this term before , or I guess as Bernie would say “I have Nevah even head of this tem befoe” lol
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If you loved this then you will likely enjoy British linguist YouTuber @DrGeoffLindsey.
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The second vowel is an unstressed "i". In most varieties of English, since it is unstressed, we pronounce it as a schwa, which sounds roughly like "uh".
If you'd like to articulate that syllable, then pronounce it like the "i" in "sit". That's completely optional.
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You are correct. It is le garky not la garky. But Bernie does not follow the norms of gendered language.
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I'll also toss A Way with Words on the pile too. It's a long running NPR-adjacent radio show/podcast about linquistics.
My favorite was a dive they did on the descriptor "like a dead preacher" to refer to an annoying awkward thing to move.
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Have you never heard of an accent before?
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No I haven’t. Up until I read these replies on Lenny I had no idea it was a thing. TIL
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oh, it's garlicky
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Isn't oligarchy a loan word from the French language? Or like, if not a loan word I'm sure it at least has French etymology
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I'm going to assume you're not being sarcastic here. Aren't there accents in France?
