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OctoberBlues posted:There is some David Sedaris story about his old neighbor lady that always says terlet, it's such a goofy pronunciation and I'm sad I've never heard anyone actually say it. Thank New York. Why soitanly! http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/05/new-york-accent.html Curl and coil sort of defeat this, though. ---- Canadians pronouncing process with a long o. Why. Why that ONE WORD. People who pronounce tenet tenant and tack tact should be brained with a cast iron skillet.
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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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Checking yourself/humble-bragging for being pedantic seems to be a thing now. If most of your audience clearly doesn't know what pedantic means, you are actually being didactic. Pointing out this difference is pedantic, which sets up a Hofstadterian strange loop. Calling this Hofstadterian is didactic, so... Really best to avoid these words, and self-reference in general.
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