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Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
To help my American lemmings with pronunciation: Red-ing and Bark-shere.
It’s a very good university too.
Comment on I, too, like books.
Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
To help my American lemmings with pronunciation: Red-ing and Bark-shere.
It’s a very good university too.
dogsoahC@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Anglophones have no right to complain about French pronunciation. What the fuck is this shit?
Skua@kbin.earth 3 months ago
Half the reason our pronunciation is so weird is that a bunch of French guys took over England
then_three_more@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It would be so much easier if we had accents over our vowels, like in a lot of languages to indicate which of that vowels sounds was wanted.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
oldenglish.info/advpronunciationguide.html
English used to be phonetic, it’s just people started changing the way they pronounced vowels, but the spelling stayed the same. For example, both the k and the gh in “knight” used to be pronounced.
Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Tell me about it English is a bastardised language made up of so many different languages rules. Have you heard of Lee and Perrins Worcestershire sauce? It’s pronounced wuster-shere.
Great sauce btw, real umami flavour and great on cheese on toast.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 months ago
My favourite is Wymondham. (Like the blowy kind,) Wind-um.
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 months ago
I like Towcester.
Excellent for breakfast crumpets.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
James Acaster’s classic Kettering Town FC bit starts with another example 😁
dogsoahC@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I’ve heard it as “English isn’t a language. It’s three languages under a trench coat, pretending to be a language.”
quantenzitrone@lemmings.world 3 months ago
ever heard of ghoti?
dogsoahC@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yes. I have also heard of “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”