I, too, like books.

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• Berttheduck@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To help my American lemmings with pronunciation: Red-ing and Bark-shere.

  It’s a very good university too.

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  • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Anglophones have no right to complain about French pronunciation. What the fuck is this shit?

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    • Skua@kbin.earth ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • quantenzitrone@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ever heard of ghoti?

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• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fun UK fact - we use a different ranking system for lecturers:

  Lecturer Senior Lecturer Reader Professor

  That means, at some point, someone has been a “Reader in X at Reading”.

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• AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s also the Reading festival. A common misconception is that it’s a music festival. It’s actually a festival of books.

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• abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  OP clearly doesn’t know what the three shells are for.

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• Maultasche@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That took me longer than it should have, as I automatically read Reading as Reading instead of reading. That’s rad.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just rename the county to Bookshire ffs

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