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    Could build this pretty easily with TTS and a dictionary.

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      Just use the Free Dictionary
      Press the little buttons on top:

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        I had the misfortune of pronouncing rapping as raping in front of the class when I was 13

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        • M [email protected]

          You call French inconsistent, I call you ignorant of its rules. They are many, they are complex, they don't make sense (but, surprisingly, languages don't ever make sense, they just are), but are for the most part consistent. Especially compared to English.

          In French, "eau" is pronounced like "o". It's dumb. But it's always true. Meanwhile, the "i" in "alive" and "live" are pronounced differently for no good reason.

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          The I in alive and live are pronounced the same, but the I in alive and live are different. English is fascinating, but I do not envy those learning it as a second language.

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            Sharp is a pretty dumb name for that symbol imo

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            Yes, it's obviously C-octothorp.

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              There are youtube channels dedicated to that.

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                I dunno. People correcting me on this stuff like an asshole just give away what fucking assholes they are. Its one of many mechanisms that helps me cut past the bullshit and realize who is absolute fucking scum by the way they treat others.

                Edit: Interesting how so much privilege is in here assuming no assholes exist and things don't happen. Try being disabled in any way in high school or certain workplaces. I have experienced it numerous times, and I've witnessed it done to others.

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                You take offense at being corrected? Rather than take responsibility for making a mistake, you blame others for correcting you. That is something Trump does. I hope you grow out of this phase of your life, for your own sake.

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                  Sharp is a pretty dumb name for that symbol imo

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                  You're not wrong, though I was a musician before a developer, so it always kind of made sense to me.

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                    Me listening to audiobooks, "he winded his way up the path". I always say winded like winding a spool of thread, but hear it told like deprived of air from the narrators...

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                    surely it should be "wound" anyway?

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                      You don't need to. The Free Dictionary has buttons on every word that speak the word in either US or UK English

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                      Cool, my book doesn't have that though!

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                        The first time I read the word "undetermined" was in Percy Jackson. I assumed it had some greek pronounciation to it. At some point I must have had to read it out loud in front of the class.

                        I pronounced it un-debtor-mind

                        Traumatic moment for preteen me

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                          I belive that the person correcting you isn't the one with a problematic mindset

                          It’s spelled “believe” you absolute fucking scum.

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                          Idk if this is satire. If no, please read this

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                            Dearest creature in creation
                            Studying English pronunciation,
                            I will teach you in my verse
                            Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

                            I will keep you, Susy, busy,
                            Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
                            Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
                            Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.

                            Pray, console your loving poet,
                            Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
                            Just compare heart, hear and heard,
                            Dies and diet, lord and word.

                            Sword and sward, retain and Britain
                            (Mind the latter how it's written).
                            Made has not the sound of bade,
                            Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid.

                            Now I surely will not plague you
                            With such words as vague and ague,
                            But be careful how you speak,
                            Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak ,

                            Previous, precious, fuchsia, via
                            Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir;
                            Woven, oven, how and low,
                            Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe.

                            Say, expecting fraud and trickery:
                            Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,
                            Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles,
                            Missiles, similes, reviles.

                            Wholly, holly, signal, signing,
                            Same, examining, but mining,
                            Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
                            Solar, mica, war and far.

                            From "desire": desirable-admirable from "admire",
                            Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier,
                            Topsham, brougham, renown, but known,
                            Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone,

                            One, anemone, Balmoral,
                            Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel.
                            Gertrude, German, wind and wind,
                            Beau, kind, kindred, queue, mankind,

                            Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather,
                            Reading, Reading, heathen, heather.
                            This phonetic labyrinth
                            Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth.

                            Have you ever yet endeavoured
                            To pronounce revered and severed,
                            Demon, lemon, ghoul, foul, soul,
                            Peter, petrol and patrol?

                            Billet does not end like ballet;
                            Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
                            Blood and flood are not like food,
                            Nor is mould like should and would.

                            Banquet is not nearly parquet,
                            Which exactly rhymes with khaki.
                            Discount, viscount, load and broad,
                            Toward, to forward, to reward,

                            Ricocheted and crocheting, croquet?
                            Right! Your pronunciation's OK.
                            Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
                            Friend and fiend, alive and live.

                            Is your r correct in higher?
                            Keats asserts it rhymes Thalia.
                            Hugh, but hug, and hood, but hoot,
                            Buoyant, minute, but minute.

                            Say abscission with precision,
                            Now: position and transition;
                            Would it tally with my rhyme
                            If I mentioned paradigm?

                            Twopence, threepence, tease are easy,
                            But cease, crease, grease and greasy?
                            Cornice, nice, valise, revise,
                            Rabies, but lullabies.

                            Of such puzzling words as nauseous,
                            Rhyming well with cautious, tortious,
                            You'll envelop lists, I hope,
                            In a linen envelope.

                            Would you like some more? You'll have it!
                            Affidavit, David, davit.
                            To abjure, to perjure. Sheik
                            Does not sound like Czech but ache.

                            Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
                            Rachel, loch, moustache, eleven.
                            We say hallowed, but allowed,
                            People, leopard, towed but vowed.

                            Mark the difference, moreover,
                            Between mover, plover, Dover.
                            Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
                            Chalice, but police and lice,

                            Camel, constable, unstable,
                            Principle, disciple, label.
                            Petal, penal, and canal,
                            Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal,

                            Suit, suite, ruin. Circuit, conduit
                            Rhyme with "shirk it" and "beyond it",
                            But it is not hard to tell
                            Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall.

                            Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron,
                            Timber, climber, bullion, lion,
                            Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
                            Senator, spectator, mayor,

                            Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
                            Has the a of drachm and hammer.
                            Pussy, hussy and possess,
                            Desert, but desert, address.

                            Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants
                            Hoist in lieu of flags left pennants.
                            Courier, courtier, tomb, bomb, comb,
                            Cow, but Cowper, some and home.

                            "Solder, soldier! Blood is thicker",
                            Quoth he, "than liqueur or liquor",
                            Making, it is sad but true,
                            In bravado, much ado.

                            Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
                            Neither does devour with clangour.
                            Pilot, pivot, gaunt, but aunt,
                            Font, front, wont, want, grand and grant.

                            Arsenic, specific, scenic,
                            Relic, rhetoric, hygienic.
                            Gooseberry, goose, and close, but close,
                            Paradise, rise, rose, and dose.

                            Say inveigh, neigh, but inveigle,
                            Make the latter rhyme with eagle.
                            Mind! Meandering but mean,
                            Valentine and magazine.

                            And I bet you, dear, a penny,
                            You say mani-(fold) like many,
                            Which is wrong. Say rapier, pier,
                            Tier (one who ties), but tier.

                            Arch, archangel; pray, does erring
                            Rhyme with herring or with stirring?
                            Prison, bison, treasure trove,
                            Treason, hover, cover, cove,

                            Perseverance, severance. Ribald
                            Rhymes (but piebald doesn't) with nibbled.
                            Phaeton, paean, gnat, ghat, gnaw,
                            Lien, psychic, shone, bone, pshaw.

                            Don't be down, my own, but rough it,
                            And distinguish buffet, buffet;
                            Brood, stood, roof, rook, school, wool, boon,
                            Worcester, Boleyn, to impugn.

                            Say in sounds correct and sterling
                            Hearse, hear, hearken, year and yearling.
                            Evil, devil, mezzotint,
                            Mind the z! (A gentle hint.)

                            Now you need not pay attention
                            To such sounds as I don't mention,
                            Sounds like pores, pause, pours and paws,
                            Rhyming with the pronoun yours;

                            Nor are proper names included,
                            Though I often heard, as you did,
                            Funny rhymes to unicorn,
                            Yes, you know them, Vaughan and Strachan.

                            No, my maiden, coy and comely,
                            I don't want to speak of Cholmondeley.
                            No. Yet Froude compared with proud
                            Is no better than McLeod.

                            But mind trivial and vial,
                            Tripod, menial, denial,
                            Troll and trolley, realm and ream,
                            Schedule, mischief, schism, and scheme.

                            Argil, gill, Argyll, gill. Surely
                            May be made to rhyme with Raleigh,
                            But you're not supposed to say
                            Piquet rhymes with sobriquet.

                            Had this invalid invalid
                            Worthless documents? How pallid,
                            How uncouth he, couchant, looked,
                            When for Portsmouth I had booked!

                            Zeus, Thebes, Thales, Aphrodite,
                            Paramour, enamoured, flighty,
                            Episodes, antipodes,
                            Acquiesce, and obsequies.

                            Please don't monkey with the geyser,
                            Don't peel 'taters with my razor,
                            Rather say in accents pure:
                            Nature, stature and mature.

                            Pious, impious, limb, climb, glumly,
                            Worsted, worsted, crumbly, dumbly,
                            Conquer, conquest, vase, phase, fan,
                            Wan, sedan and artisan.

                            The th will surely trouble you
                            More than r, ch or w.
                            Say then these phonetic gems:
                            Thomas, thyme, Theresa, Thames.

                            Thompson, Chatham, Waltham, Streatham,
                            There are more but I forget 'em-
                            Wait! I've got it: Anthony,
                            Lighten your anxiety.

                            The archaic word albeit
                            Does not rhyme with eight-you see it;
                            With and forthwith, one has voice,
                            One has not, you make your choice.

                            Shoes, goes, does *. Now first say: finger;
                            Then say: singer, ginger, linger.
                            Real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge,
                            Marriage, foliage, mirage, age,

                            Hero, heron, query, very,
                            Parry, tarry fury, bury,
                            Dost, lost, post, and doth, cloth, loth,
                            Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath.

                            Faugh, oppugnant, keen oppugners,
                            Bowing, bowing, banjo-tuners
                            Holm you know, but noes, canoes,
                            Puisne, truism, use, to use?

                            Though the difference seems little,
                            We say actual, but victual,
                            Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight, height,
                            Put, nut, granite, and unite.

                            Reefer does not rhyme with deafer,
                            Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
                            Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late,
                            Hint, pint, senate, but sedate.

                            Gaelic, Arabic, pacific,
                            Science, conscience, scientific;
                            Tour, but our, dour, succour, four,
                            Gas, alas, and Arkansas.

                            Say manoeuvre, yacht and vomit,
                            Next omit, which differs from it
                            Bona fide, alibi
                            Gyrate, dowry and awry.

                            Sea, idea, guinea, area,
                            Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
                            Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean,
                            Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

                            Compare alien with Italian,
                            Dandelion with battalion,
                            Rally with ally; yea, ye,
                            Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay!

                            Say aver, but ever, fever,
                            Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.
                            Never guess-it is not safe,
                            We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf.

                            Starry, granary, canary,
                            Crevice, but device, and eyrie,
                            Face, but preface, then grimace,
                            Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.

                            Bass, large, target, gin, give, verging,
                            Ought, oust, joust, and scour, but scourging;
                            Ear, but earn; and ere and tear
                            Do not rhyme with here but heir.

                            Mind the o of off and often
                            Which may be pronounced as orphan,
                            With the sound of saw and sauce;
                            Also soft, lost, cloth and cross.

                            Pudding, puddle, putting. Putting?
                            Yes: at golf it rhymes with shutting.
                            Respite, spite, consent, resent.
                            Liable, but Parliament.

                            Seven is right, but so is even,
                            Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,
                            Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk,
                            Asp, grasp, wasp, demesne, cork, work.

                            A of valour, vapid vapour,
                            S of news (compare newspaper),
                            G of gibbet, gibbon, gist,
                            I of antichrist and grist,

                            Differ like diverse and divers,
                            Rivers, strivers, shivers, fivers.
                            Once, but nonce, toll, doll, but roll,
                            Polish, Polish, poll and poll.

                            Pronunciation-think of Psyche!-
                            Is a paling, stout and spiky.
                            Won't it make you lose your wits
                            Writing groats and saying "grits"?

                            It's a dark abyss or tunnel
                            Strewn with stones like rowlock, gunwale,
                            Islington, and Isle of Wight,
                            Housewife, verdict and indict.

                            Don't you think so, reader, rather,
                            Saying lather, bather, father?
                            Finally, which rhymes with enough,
                            Though, through, bough, cough, hough, sough, tough??

                            Hiccough has the sound of sup...
                            My advice is: GIVE IT UP!

                            Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos (1922)

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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

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                              Kindergarden

                              Validating your point: https://grammarhow.com/kindergarten-or-kindergarden/

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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

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                                  You're not wrong, though I was a musician before a developer, so it always kind of made sense to me.

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                                  oh, yeah it's from music - I should have clocked that

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                                    English needs a spelling reform badly. Like the whole point of writing is to put speech in writing. It makes no sense to have spelling be this detached from pronunciation.

                                    busy should be bizy for example

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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.

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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.

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                                      I total believe you're not in a weird magic cult winks

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                                        You call French inconsistent, I call you ignorant of its rules. They are many, they are complex, they don't make sense (but, surprisingly, languages don't ever make sense, they just are), but are for the most part consistent. Especially compared to English.

                                        In French, "eau" is pronounced like "o". It's dumb. But it's always true. Meanwhile, the "i" in "alive" and "live" are pronounced differently for no good reason.

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                                        Most French comment ever made that doesn't include cheese and wine, in that it admits it's basically the exact same as English but must pretend it is superior nonetheless.

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                                          I had the misfortune of pronouncing rapping as raping in front of the class when I was 13

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                                          "My favorite rapper is Puff Daddy"

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