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• Skua@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Half the reason our pronunciation is so weird is that a bunch of French guys took over England

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  • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Berttheduck@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My favourite is Wymondham. (Like the blowy kind,) Wind-um.

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    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I like Towcester.
      Excellent for breakfast crumpets.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    James Acaster’s classic Kettering Town FC bit starts with another example 😁

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  • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve heard it as “English isn’t a language. It’s three languages under a trench coat, pretending to be a language.”

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• quantenzitrone@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  ever heard of ghoti?

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  • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes. I have also heard of “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”

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