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Somehow I learned the word adjucent from reading instead of learning as my dad would always just say caddy-corner when he meant accross a diagonol.... now i pronounce it adj-aye-cent and everyone calls me on it. To this day I can't remember which is correct until I look it up. Its Uh-jaye-cent. Its uh-jaye-cent. its uh-jaye-cent its uh-jaye-cent its uhjaycent its uhjaycent its uh-jay-cent, its adgj-accent gently caress!
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Its actually pretty cool.... American english is according to analysts much more likely to be how england pronounced the words at the times of the puritan flee and after it has staid roughly the same due to it not being the primary language in many neighborhoods. Supposedly american's speak more "proper" english than englishman because they continued to evolved the pronunciations over centuries after it was cut from the puritans. Hell look at the word neighborhood, that is a straight up middle english word that we still use to this day with the same pronunciation as centuries ago. Kind of interesting
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Feb 17, 2017 07:59
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Sheep-Goats posted:There are a few things I would be better off not knowing and one of those things is the right way to say Spokane. pretty sure its Spo-kane cuz of movies. We good brah.
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Feb 17, 2017 07:59
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Sheep-Goats posted:I've been there a number of times, sadly. how is it supposed to be pronounced you monster do not leave me to hang.
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Feb 17, 2017 08:09
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Prorat posted:Carbine. yeah its french, so its car-bean I agree but it is what it is.
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Feb 17, 2017 08:13
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Schweinhund posted:AluMINium NOPE its aluminum, says the greatest producer in the world of the stuff before china found deposits and we still order it as aluminum so you lose limey! [edit]its a proper dumb name conspiracy i tells ya http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm some twat named it in theory decades before it was even created and he was british so the british used that dumb name even though it doesn't match the other nomenclature of similar elements found when it was actually found hence the USA and Canada using the proper found names. Wendigee fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Feb 17, 2017 |
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Feb 17, 2017 08:14
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inkajoo posted:too lazy to read entire thread so far so apologies if any of these have been said already: at least be not so lazy as to not provide the right pronunciation.... its just shameful to know its incorrect but not know the correct way..... drat man brutal. that's all just written in american syllables and even most parts of america don't use them the same way bud
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Feb 17, 2017 08:30
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ArbitraryC posted:I feel like epi-tome would be a much cooler pronunciation. yes, but its a loan word, from greek?, so we use the pronunciation from the original language as much as possible. eee-pit-oh-mee
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Feb 17, 2017 08:44
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Hobologist posted:In that vein, karaoke is not pronounced "kerry-okie," and it's "Tokyo," not "Tokiyo." It's not a 3-syllable word (technically it's 4 syllables, but anyway...) you do realize you didn't help anyone right? try it again with american syllables. I think Tokyo is supposed to be Tok-yo? Is that wrong? Also Kerry-yokie is totally how americans pronounce it, whats the proper way?
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Feb 17, 2017 09:39
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ArgumentatumE.C.T. posted:demo yeah english is a total bitch language and it doesn't follow rules. youll just drive yourself crazy.
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Feb 17, 2017 09:40
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Hobologist posted:I think there was a time in the 18th century when pronouncing foreign words according to English rules was considered fashionable, like saying the S in Calais. I suppose it was a protest against French being the lingua franca of Europe. I think now they're just doing it to be dicks, though. accurate view: aluMINium
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Feb 17, 2017 10:03
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Hobologist posted:Bro, this thread is for pronouncing words wrong. If you want to pronounce words right, make your own thread. don't push me!
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Feb 17, 2017 10:03
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Mu Zeta posted:When I heard how the Top Gear hosts pronounced "Hyundai" I thought I had been raped. not gonna lie... hyundai is owned in america.... so what is the proper pronunciation?
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Feb 17, 2017 10:29
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lol huy-une-dai
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Feb 17, 2017 10:31
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Woden posted:Sodder instead of solder grinds my gears, there's an l in there retards. huh... we do sodder instead of solder in the US. Learned that in engineering college lol. A Sixth is a Sixth and we never either though.
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