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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Word pronunciations that piss you off
 
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a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

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"?

Hearing it as "huh-wail" always makes me cringe.
um well uhh technically it's not two separate sounds, it's a voiced velar fricative with rounded lips :downs:

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a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

eSports Chaebol posted:

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
err voiceless... that's what I meant!!! I said the one thing but I meant the other, opposite thing! :sweatdrop:

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