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I didn't see "re-lit-or" for realtor. That drives me insane. I had a teacher once tell me it was pronounced that way because its from the Spanish word for royal, which makes it have three syllables...but the Spanish work "re-al" would make it "re-al-tor" and still have three syllables.
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Hardawn posted:I can't stand people
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The Skeleton King posted:All words that originated from France. How French words are spelled has nothing to do with how they sound. Letters can be added at random and none of them will make a sound. Most of them can't even agree on how to say some of their words. French spelling is atrocious, pronunciation is consistent. English spelling is atrocious, pronunciation is inconsistent. Your choice.
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I know the extraneous "r" in words like "wash" has been mentioned (people who say "dishwarsher" should be euthanized), but has anyone mentioned the weird insertion of a preliminary "h" sound in words like "whale"? Hearing it as "huh-wail" always makes me cringe.
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 00:33 |
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"whooping cough" pronounced a "hooping cough."
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Oxygen Deficiency posted:I also pronounce it this way. What is the "correct" way? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brOvcCtaROQ
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I know the extraneous "r" in words like "wash" has been mentioned (people who say "dishwarsher" should be euthanized), but has anyone mentioned the weird insertion of a preliminary "h" sound in words like "whale"? I mean it is "whale" not "wale" I tell you what
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 01:36 |
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americans saying "Dee-Kal" instead of decal
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 01:40 |
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I know the extraneous "r" in words like "wash" has been mentioned (people who say "dishwarsher" should be euthanized), but has anyone mentioned the weird insertion of a preliminary "h" sound in words like "whale"?
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 01:41 |
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eSports Chaebol posted:I mean it is "whale" not "wale" I tell you what I am going to be the guy huh-woo finally starts pronouncing words like huh-wat and huh-ware consistently!
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 01:42 |
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a hole-y ghost posted:um well uhh technically it's not two separate sounds, it's a voiced velar fricative with rounded lips it's a voiceless rounded bilabial velar glide you doofus! e: on second thought I guess whether a voiceless approximant is a glide or a fricative is meaningless but it's still voiceless eSports Chaebol fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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"Meer" instead of mirror.
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 01:52 |
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eSports Chaebol posted:it's a voiceless rounded bilabial velar glide you doofus!
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 01:57 |
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6 million Jews died in the Hollycaust This month is FeBREWary I'm PERscribed antibeeotics You had to make this an is-ewe, dint you?
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Stato-Masochist posted:6 million Jews died in the Hollycaust But this month is February. You're not one of those filthy Febuary sayers, are you?
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 03:01 |
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Moose-lemon
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 03:08 |
it's a mulTIMeter, not a MULTImeter. You don't say SPEEDOmeter or ODOmeter. SpeeDOMeter. oDOMeter. Emphasis on the prefix is reserved for the unit, if that. NANOmeter. CENTImeter. KILOmeter a sometimes-exception for some reason. A while ago NPR had a guy on talking about how back when chinese food was new in the US, the mary tyler moore show was pronouncing it "chinese FOOD" insead of "chiNESE food." It was weird and interesting.
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 03:11 |
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Hardawn posted:Moose-lemon Muscleman?
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Hobologist posted:But this month is February. You're not one of those filthy Febuary sayers, are you? Only on Wed-nes-days Stato-Masochist fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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oldskool posted:ō is apparently a long O, not a hard O. I learned something today. Username/post discrepancy. In actual old school, this was covered in the first grade. Joking, you just had this confused C and G, where hard and soft are used to describe their two possible sounds in English.
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I'm almost certain there were tv ads in my region that pronounced it like the top gear guys so maybe that's where I originally picked it up.
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 04:34 |
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It's yinz you loving savages, not yunzs.
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 04:36 |
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It's 100% shibboleth but if you go to Tempe you might notice the locals emphasize the second syllable. Tem-pee, outside of there I have only heard it spoken like Tempy.
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Maybe it's due to having actual Koreans around here but Hyundai is kind a lazy middle ground between the Pronunciationbook and this one. hyun-day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0UovyM8Ni0
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 04:39 |
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Just remembered that I had a college professor once who pronounced zero as "zay-roh". He taught physics so he tended to say it a LOT. Another teacher caused a derail in a sciene class when she took out a bottle of "i-oh-deen" and we spent the rest of the class trying to agree on the correct pronunciation. I was in the "i-oh-dyne" camp and I still am.
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Bogatyr posted:Maybe it's due to having actual Koreans around here but Hyundai is kind a lazy middle ground between the Pronunciationbook and this one. hyun-day This one is correct. Still, I've heard other Americans come pretty close with Hyundai. The Top Gear guys just completely blew me away with how wrong they were. Colonizing is in their blood.
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Oxygen Deficiency posted:Just remembered that I had a college professor once who pronounced zero as "zay-roh". He taught physics so he tended to say it a LOT. If you've ever spoken to a native Spanish speaker about chemistry (in English) it can be a bit startling at first. Iodine = iodo, for example.
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 05:00 |
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Appre-SEA-ate. Get hosed, posho
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Oxygen Deficiency posted:Just remembered that I had a college professor once who pronounced zero as "zay-roh". He taught physics so he tended to say it a LOT. One professor spent half a lecture berating us for never being taught about "empty fires", someone finally figured out he meant amplifiers and we finally started the lesson.
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 05:05 |
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Grump posted:yeah, no = no I drive my girlfriend crazy with this
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 05:06 |
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Vehicle as ve-hic-al always makes me smile
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 05:07 |
Nobody says "no, yeah" do they?
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 05:11 |
at least "yeah, no" can be like confirming a doubt or whatever
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Woden posted:One professor spent half a lecture berating us for never being taught about "empty fires", someone finally figured out he meant amplifiers and we finally started the lesson. I took a class on a Nokia CDMA base station years ago, the instructor was from Mexico City. At one point he was talking about a "vai ess tee ee" the whole class was baffled until he put up a slide with word "Bias Tee". A collective subdued ooohh came over the class with a puzzled look on the instructor's face. Just to head this question off, A bias tee is used to apply power(separate from the RF) to a coaxial cable to power a mast head amplifier.
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Bogatyr posted:I took a class on a Nokia CDMA base station years ago, the instructor was from Mexico City. At one point he was talking about a "vai ess tee ee" the whole class was baffled until he put up a slide with word "Bias Tee". A collective subdued ooohh came over the class with a puzzled look on the instructor's face. So it runs kind of like power over ethernet?
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 06:53 |
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Laboratory & prescription.
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Grump posted:yeah, no = no I still don't get this post. I'm sure it's just me though
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# ? Feb 18, 2017 08:08 |
donald trump: NUKE-you-LERR
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ra tehuti posted:I still don't get this post. I'm sure it's just me though Whether you hate love or love hate hate wins
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theres a will theres moe posted:it's a mulTIMeter, not a MULTImeter.
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