literally a french word
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NONE_dc@lemmy.world 1 day agomost of the letters
Queue
(and why the fuck Mike and Nike aren’t pronounced similarly?)
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Adiemus@lemm.ee 1 day ago
A better example might be “home” and “some”, where only one letter is different, but the pronounciation is completely different. There are many words like these. English doesn’t make sense at all.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Mike and Nike are pronounced similarly
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
They are…it’s a regional thing
See here m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkg5nLOgxII
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well “Mike” is a typical appreciation of the name Micheal of Hebrew origin that long predates the English language. “Nike” is Ancient Greek, which also predates the English Language. Nike is the name of the Greek god of victory. So neither one of those is English.
Rubanski@lemm.ee 1 day ago
It’s like how you pronounce Hercules and molecules the same way
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
An Ancient Roman proper name derived from an Ancient Greek proper name Heracles, which is likely where we get our clues for modern pronunciation.
Thats a French word they built from a Latin base. Take it up with them on that one.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But why is pronounced “Nai-ki” and not “Ny-ke”? We here don’t give a fuck a say “Nike” like Mike.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The single syllable “Nike” pronunciation was introducing in the late 1980s or early 1990s with the advertising campaign for “Nike Air” shoes. Sometimes pop culture name shortening sticks. Another example of this would be the brand Porsche has two syllables, but has been shortened by most to a single syllable name.