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Big Beef City posted:Foy-er (voyeur with an 'F') These are the basic bitch pronunciations, I want to see what the book says
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Makes sense that a guy named Phyfe would be obsessed with people pronouncing things correctly.
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Tree Bucket posted:Makes sense that a guy named Phyfe would be obsessed with people pronouncing things correctly. Pronounced fiffy ironically.
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Mar 13, 2022 23:57
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The P in Phyfe is a voiceless bilabial plosive, the h is just there to indicate that it's aspirated
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Oyak posted:
lol Big Beef City posted:Foy-er (voyeur with an 'F') and all 3 different in the UK but I assume that's 
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Mar 14, 2022 00:01
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Tree Bucket posted:Makes sense that a guy named Phyfe would be obsessed with people pronouncing things correctly. this was this first time I heard that Phyfe was sloppy
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Big Beef City posted:Hegemony  good one
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Gooch and Brooch, respectively. no gooch, only brooch 
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Mar 14, 2022 00:04
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croissant
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Empty Sandwich posted:and all 3 different in the UK but I assume that's Not so much a joke as I'm just curious which sides of which lines the author falls on Oyak posted:
Like look at this, he thinks the emphasis in Helena should be on the 1st syllable, specifically not the 2nd. That's really weird and interesting.
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Mar 14, 2022 00:12
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Devils Affricate posted:Foyer  Wrong again, Big Beef City!
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Devils Affricate posted:fillet  serious question, what is filet vs fillet?
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Devils Affricate posted:garage  kind of cool to think of a time when the garage was a new innovation (as opposed to the carriage house)
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Mar 14, 2022 00:16
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Oyak posted:serious question, what is filet vs fillet? As far as I know, they are two interchangeable spellings of the same word
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Flipperwaldt posted:croissant No entry, probably didn't exist in the US at that time.
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Devils Affricate posted:As far as I know, they are two interchangeable spellings of the same word ...and yet the guy gives them different pronounciations
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Mar 14, 2022 00:19
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No entry
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Mar 14, 2022 00:21
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Oyak posted:No entry no poo poo? how about macabre?
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Mar 14, 2022 00:27
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Let's see what they thought about February back in the day
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les enfants Terrific! posted:no poo poo? how about macabre? sorry bro
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Devils Affricate posted:Let's see what they thought about February back in the day 
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Clandestine
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lol e: also look at how he says fedora Devils Affricate fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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Oyak posted:
LOL to the greater similitude of the Italian gape compared to the slender English gape.
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Oyak posted:sorry bro honestly, this just means I'm free to say these words however I please with no remorse
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Oyak posted:
I was right on the other two 
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Imagine how puckered this guy's butthole must have been all the time! This book is a delight, though. I remember being embarrassed by mispronouncing "matinee" when I was a kid. Look that up, please.
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MoonshineWilly posted:Clandestine 
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William Bear posted:Imagine how puckered this guy's butthole must have been all the time! This book is a delight, though. 
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Mar 14, 2022 01:38
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Matelasse (a type of fabric woven on a jacquard loom which, despite having spent the last two and a half months making a matelasse curtain, I still have no idea how to pronounce)
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Mar 14, 2022 01:40
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Iatrogenic
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Dong Quixote posted:Iatrogenic Gesundheit!
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Matelasse (a type of fabric woven on a jacquard loom which, despite having spent the last two and a half months making a matelasse curtain, I still have no idea how to pronounce) Didn't think the professor would have this one, but... 
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Dong Quixote posted:Iatrogenic No entry...obviously there were no iatrogenic conditions 100 years ago.
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Aluminum
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Oyak posted:Didn't think the professor would have this one, but... I'm surprised both that it was in the book and that I was more or less correct in how I was pronouncing it.
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look up melee My friends and I mispronounced it for loving years as "me lee" growing up due to only reading it in video games.
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Oyak posted:
poo poo, I didn't even catch that. I checked Garner:  so basically Devils Affricate posted:As far as I know, they are two interchangeable spellings of the same word but also Oyak posted:...and yet the guy gives them different pronounciations
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