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…
Rubanski@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I think we should start pronouncing molecules or particles like Hercules, just to be consistent
bstix@feddit.dk 6 months ago
Now, you’re just wrecking my mind.
Slovene@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Just as long they don’t wreck your testicles.
bstix@feddit.dk 6 months ago
I think we can agree on that one.
In anyof the languages that I know the pronunciation of, there are no differences in the pronunciation of deez nutz.
wewbull@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Mole-cue-leez?
Gabu@lemmy.world 6 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCLwkS9RlQ4