And don't get me started on "Sean"

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• javasux@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most of those are not English words lol

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No no I’m pronouncing the french words correctly, it’s the Brits who are wrong

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    • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      c/nottheonion

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• elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Apparently, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was fond of pointing out the absurdities of English spelling by proving that “fish” could be spelled “ghoti”, That is, gh as in rough, o as in women and ti as in palatial”

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  • stepan@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Vsauce had a video about this!

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only time Sean throws me off is when it’s in front of Bean.

  Shawn Bawn, or Seen Bean? 🤔

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sean Bean obviously

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• Squorlple@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still think about how my Cuban former coworker pronounced Popeye the Sailor as poh-pee-yay

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One of Pablo Escobar’s lieutenants was nicknamed Popeye. When i first heard it pronounced in spanish I was so confused. To make it even funnier, here in Medellin y’s are pronounced like j’s so here his name is Poh-pay-jay.

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• iheartneopets@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  192

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• BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  salmon bologna Tucson

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What a waste of life!

  -Michael McIntyre

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• TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “us ESL folks” as if there’s only two language families on earth 🙄🙄

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  • Psionicsickness@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are only 2.

    Imperial and barbarous.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you’ll find that there’s two kinds of units:

      SI and absolute nonsense based on the ravings of long dead lunatics

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• teft@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Find a friend who is bilingual in the opposite languages as you. So for me a Spanish native that speaks English. Then you can correct each other’s fuck ups on pronunciation. That’s what me and my buddies do. It helps a lot for words you’ve only ever seen written.

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