Comment on speedometers

ptz@dubvee.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For anyone confused.

  Most other languages do call it a thermo meter or similar. People who are not native English speakers will pronounce it wrongly when speaking English, because the word is the same - it’s just pronounced weirdly in both British and American English. The British and American pronunciations are not exactly the same on this, but they’re both wrong different from any other languages, except Greek.

  The English pronunciation is caused by English inheriting the Greek way of stressing the third last syllable on words of Greek origin. It makes no sense in my mind why they do it on compound words though. Meter is not Greek. It’s English, so they could’ve chosen differently, but they obviously chose the most annoying way to pronounce it.

  There’s a few other words like that, but I don’t remember which…

  source

  • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think we should start pronouncing molecules or particles like Hercules, just to be consistent

    source

    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now, you’re just wrecking my mind.

      source

      • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Just as long they don’t wreck your testicles.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mole-cue-leez?

      source
    • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCLwkS9RlQ4

      source
  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thermo meter Thermometer

    Me: They are the same picture

    Seriously though i did not understand which one I am pronouncing. I would usually read thermo meter and thermometer the same. When I try to differentiate by trying to make it sound together, or by trying to make more detatched, i just can’t and end up pronouncing the same

    source

    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ok. In English it’s pronounced third-MOM-meet-her.

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEwofs_IPmY

      source

      • h3rm17@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In Spanish as well. Ter-MO-metro

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks I guess i’ll stick to thermo meter lol

        source
  • Ageroth@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pedometer is the first one that comes to mind for me.

    source

    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t even want to know how that’s pronounced correctly. It’s obviously two words. Foot and meter. Wtf is a Dom?

      Circumference is pretty bad too.

      source

      • Ageroth@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think it’s the same as ther-MOM-iter. Pe-DOM-iter

        source
  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Haha thanks! I was totally lost xD

    source
  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Meter is not Greek.

    Do you mean the pronunciation is not Greek?

    source

    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Both thermo and meter are from Greek, but the combination didn’t exist until the 17th century

      source

      • oce@jlai.lu ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What you wrote before is confusing then.

        source
• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like to do that with a lot of the o’meters, just for fun.

  Acceler-o-meter and seis-o-meter are my favorite. Weirdly least fun: kil-o-meter.

  source

  • Ageroth@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pedometer is my favorite of these. How many pedo’s ya get in today?

    source

    • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t it usually the other way around? Pedos getting in…. You know what, never mind.

      source
• Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and what the teacher did?

  source

  • ptz@dubvee.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Corrected him. lol.

    source