Comment on Typical monopoly people

Aljernon@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• jpablo68@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And you also have words like Wednesday…

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Worcestershire sauce

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      WAR-shǝ-stir

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  • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Woden’s day

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  French in particular gets a lot of words with original spellings because it used to be the language of the courts in England.

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• this@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not always, the word skosh(meaning just a little bit or a tiny amount) comes from the Japanese word sukoshi(少し), but that can probably be attributed to the language not generally using romanized letters.

  It’s a very interesting word to me since its one of the very few words that migrated from Japanese to English and isn’t a name of something. The way it came over is also rather interesting, as it was through collaboration between us and Japanese soldiers during the Korean war.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hancho (via head honcho) also comes to mind.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think kawaii is in the process of being absorbed, though I’ve mostly seen it in more weeby areas of the internet, so hard to say for sure.

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t consider it anywhere near mainstream at this point.

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• Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My favorite are British English, who can’t stand the French to the point that they say things like filet with a hard T.

  This also reminds me of a recent trip to Colorado, where they do the same thing with Spanish words, anglicizing all of them. Salida (sa-LIE-da) is the first one that’s coming to mind, but I know there are other cities in Colorado that are clearly Spanish words that they’ve just abused.

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  • Aljernon@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People from Nevada make a point of pronouncing their state different than the Spanish word

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• smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In “there” own fashion huh ?

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