Comment on speedometers
bstix@feddit.dk 7 months agoFor 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…
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
Ok. In English it’s pronounced third-MOM-meet-her.
In Spanish as well. Ter-MO-metro
That’s just an Irish accent.
Thanks I guess i’ll stick to thermo meter lol
Pedometer is the first one that comes to mind for me.
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.
I think it’s the same as ther-MOM-iter. Pe-DOM-iter
Haha thanks! I was totally lost xD
Meter is not Greek.
Do you mean the pronunciation is not Greek?
Both thermo and meter are from Greek, but the combination didn’t exist until the 17th century
What you wrote before is confusing then.
Rubanski@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I think we should start pronouncing molecules or particles like Hercules, just to be consistent
bstix@feddit.dk 7 months ago
Now, you’re just wrecking my mind.
Slovene@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Just as long they don’t wreck your testicles.
bstix@feddit.dk 7 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 7 months ago
Mole-cue-leez?
Gabu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCLwkS9RlQ4