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Crimson Harvest
Jul 14, 2004

I'm a GENERAL, not some opera floozy!
Every British pronunciation of foreign words is dumpster-speak.

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Crimson Harvest
Jul 14, 2004

I'm a GENERAL, not some opera floozy!

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.

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.

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.

Crimson Harvest
Jul 14, 2004

I'm a GENERAL, not some opera floozy!
My regional accent is pretty mild but we do some really dumb poo poo around here. A lot of words like mountain or curtain get a glottal stop instead of that middle T sound. We care enough to try and pronounce the local native names but not simple nouns? Cmon, fam.

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