Inn english their our know rules,

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I like what you did there, and I get it, but, I don’t hear “are” when I see our, I hear “hour”.

  Now I’m just curious which is more common.

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  • nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We would definitely pronounce our as “are” in some cases., usually when referring to a person. “Our kid” or “Our Jack” would have been pronounced “are”.

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    • robolemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Must be a regional thing because for me “our” always sounds like “hour” no matter what

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• m_f@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You’ll like this poem:

  ncf.idallen.com/english.html

  The start of it:

  Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos (1922)

  Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

  I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.

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• SassyRamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nguyen ewe egg noire Gramm her.

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  • sho@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not gon lie, but i have no idea what this reads. I can maybe make sense of the “Gramm her” part reading as “Grammar” but not much beyond that 😅

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    • SassyRamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nguyen (a Korean name that is common in America pronounced like “when”)

      Ewe (female sheep, pronounced like “you”)

      egg (egg only because it sounds a little lile “ig-” )

      noire (french for the color black, sometimes used in English, pronounced like “-nore”)

      Egg-noire (ignore)

      Gramm her (grammar)

      So with our sentences together it would be: “In English there are no rules, when you ignore grammar.”

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