I'd ring that
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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.
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Calliope
Hegemony
Vitiligo
These are a few of my recent ones.
cal lie o pee? Think I got that one.
Haver never heard hegemony spoken aloud.
Jesus, I've been saying vih tag lio.
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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
Did the same with misshapen. miss happen. My genius IQ gf was laughing her ass off!
"I look miss happen in that picture!"
"What?"
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ganny meade? gahny meade? Don't hold out on us!
I pronounced it gan-ih-midee like a Greek person's name. It's supposed to be gani meed
