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Paladinus posted:RIP. that's one syllable
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How many syllables is chopper
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mobby_6kl posted:How many syllables is chopper Which make?
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I pronounce squirrelled like invalid.
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zedprime posted:I pronounce squirrelled like invalid. Wouldn't that just be invalid?
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Brawnfire posted:My four year old ends her alphabet by writing W X Y N Z
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 Noam Chomsky's least favourite graph.
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I do like a good population pyramid. That got me browsing around many countries, but here's one I hadn't seen before, and I lack an explanation for:
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Millions of dead sherpas trying to haul rich westerners to the top of Everest. 
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Count Roland posted:I do like a good population pyramid. That got me browsing around many countries, but here's one I hadn't seen before, and I lack an explanation for: Nepali men slaving away to Middle Eastern oil monarchies?
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TinTower posted:
Is the dip around 20 years ago the 'echo' of the Khmer Rouge, or did something else happen around then?
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Honj Steak posted:Nepali men slaving away to Middle Eastern oil monarchies? I figured it would be that, but several places (Phillipines, Sri Lanka come to mind) also do this same thing but their population pyramids show no such distortion. Nearby Bhutan actually has a surplus of males for some reason.
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Count Roland posted:Nearby Bhutan actually has a surplus of males for some reason. Well, there's your answer.
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I assume it might have something to do with their civil war.
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If "zed" is the British pronunciation for the letter z then why do the Spice Girls, the most British of all musical acts, sing "here's a story from a to zee" in their hit song Wannabe??
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Jan 21, 2022 03:26
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it's just something the british do. q.v. all british rock bands singing with american accents
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:If "zed" is the British pronunciation for the letter z then why do the Spice Girls, the most British of all musical acts, sing "here's a story from a to zee" in their hit song Wannabe?? It's not uncommon the dumb things down for an American audience.
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It was a UK hit 6 months before it was an American hit.
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Unless there's some secret UK version where they say "from a to zed"
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:If "zed" is the British pronunciation for the letter z then why do the Spice Girls, the most British of all musical acts, sing "here's a story from a to zee" in their hit song Wannabe?? It’s common for lyrics to use alternate or fudged pronounciations of words to make a rhyme work. For example, a person who normally pronounces the word again as “uh-gen” may instead pronounce it as “uh-gain” for a song becuase that makes for an easier rhyme.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Unless there's some secret UK version where they say "from a to zed" Ah fook 'es onta us, leg it lads
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Count Roland posted:I figured it would be that, but several places (Phillipines, Sri Lanka come to mind) also do this same thing but their population pyramids show no such distortion. Nearby Bhutan actually has a surplus of males for some reason. Phillipines and Sri Lanka have a lot of women working overseas, mostly as domestic labor, which would even things out.
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Ariong posted:It’s common for lyrics to use alternate or fudged pronounciations of words to make a rhyme work. For example, a person who normally pronounces the word again as “uh-gen” may instead pronounce it as “uh-gain” for a song becuase that makes for an easier rhyme.
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"If you wanna bed my lover you gotta get with my friends" would be less spice girls more spice channel.
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If you think zed is hosed up, ask British people to say the letter h
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:If you think zed is hosed up, ask British people to say the letter h At least we say it.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:At least we say it. 'Ear this one? 'E's 'aving a laff!
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90s Cringe Rock posted:At least we say it. Honest question: how do people who speak dialects with dropped h's pronounce "herbs"?
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Whybird posted:'Ear this one? 'E's 'aving a laff!
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jeebus bob posted:Honest question: how do people who speak dialects with dropped h's pronounce "herbs"? Technically, 'erbs is correct, and 'aitch should not have a voiceless... uvular fricative I think it's called? The hhhh breathing sound, it should not have that in it. But I believe at some point there was a posh people language fad to over correct the habit of dropping sounds in speech and that led to the introduction of the sound to the letter H in some cases. That it should not have the sound is why the words hour and our are homophones, nobody says how-er (there is probably some village or particularly inbred posh people who says how-er but they don't count) but some words, such as herb, acquired it. However, I think some of the time you would probably drop it still if your dialect drops its h's as a rule. OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 13:53 on Jan 21, 2022 |
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the name Herb has the H sound voiced, but the word herb does not
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I love being corrected that it's "an historical" even though I and the braingenius are both pronouncing the H
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You could say that that is an hypercorrection.
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It was weird coming from the UK to the US, and finding everyone apparently dropping into a cockney accent when they say "herb". Particularly TV adverts with English-accented voice-overs, which is where I first noticed it.
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Family Guy may be largely trash but if I ever don't pester my wife by saying "oh do you mean cool hwip" when she mentions the frozen dessert topping you can put me in my grave
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Platystemon posted:You could say that that is an hypercorrection. I believe you mean "ypercorrection", my goon sir.
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speaking of differences between american and UK culture, what's all this about tipping
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:speaking of differences between american and UK culture, what's all this about tipping Perhaps it would become more popular in the UK if there were more cattle farms
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:speaking of differences between american and UK culture, what's all this about tipping American neo-Protestantism that positioned itself in opposition to all traditional mainstream 'high churches', saw the move closer to the Old Testament Judaism as a way to restore the real Christianity of Christ and the Apostles. This, in part, lead to the wide adoption of the pseudo-scientific belief that circumcision could deter masturbation.
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