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gnufuu@infosec.pub 4 days ago
I always found it funny how single vowels are pronounced in English, e.g. when you say the alphabet.
Any other language:
A, E, I, O, U
English:
Ayy, Oy, Eye, Oww, Yuu
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gnufuu@infosec.pub 4 days ago
I always found it funny how single vowels are pronounced in English, e.g. when you say the alphabet.
Any other language:
A, E, I, O, U
English:
Ayy, Oy, Eye, Oww, Yuu
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Letters in English are pronounced differently from their phonetics, oddly enough
glibg10b@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
It’s not just English. Afrikaans: Ah, 'ere, ee, <the diphthong in “whip”>, <not present in any English words>
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This is why I had a problem with “phonics” as a teaching philosophy.
You have “ph” sometimes teaming up to cosplay as a freaking “f”. And that’s one of the easier rules. It’s all broken from the get-go.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
My favourite word is pterodactyl
It’s got a silent letter at the beginning, and then a silent o in the middle, and an invisible a, which you pronounce but don’t type, and then a silent c, before going back to some sort of sanity for the last three letters. Who decided that’s how it should be spelt?
We already had the word Terra so why did they have to go spell this version Ptero