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Non Krampus Mentis posted:“Either” really, either way is fine
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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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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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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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Oyak posted:
same thing. Garner and whatever Wikipedia's sources are give slightly different accounts, but basically both names appeared about the same time. Noah Webster logged it as aluminum and whoever were the various UK Noahs Webster logged it as aluminium. there was some flip-flopping in usage over the years but now it's settled to aluminum in NA and aluminium in the UK (and I assume other non-Canadian Commonwealth nations?)
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Oyak posted:Bonus: archaic pronounciation of "spree" I think it's the river https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Spree
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huh. I always assumed milch was pronounced milk
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