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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And the ‘S’. And to be fair, the ‘OU’ could have just been a ‘U’.

  Randevu.

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  • rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Randevu

    interestingly, thats what the turkish word for rendezvous is.

    in turkish, words are written exactly as theyre pronounced at all times.

    just a funny sidenote :3

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    • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh they are so smart, just like I don’t know, most countries in the world that don’t prefer imperial units and imperial era spelling

      (The sarcasm is not directed to turkish though 😁)

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Türk dilini sevmeye sebeplerin biri :)

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  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How about Randaevoo ?

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    • herrwoland@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How about randeuwu?

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      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Now even that sounds correct.

        Just how many different pronunciations doe this word have?

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  • tkc@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Its not pronounced randevou though, more like ron-day-voo

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  • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Rondevu

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  • current@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In French words spelled with just “u” use a different sound than those spelled with “ou”

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll grant you the ‘s’ but it’s still more or less pronounced like it’s spelled. You can replace ‘ou’ with ‘u’ but it still sounds right with ‘ou’.

    English pronunciation in general is fucked up lol. You can never really tell how an ‘e’ or an ‘a’ will be voiced 🤣

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  • onion@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ‘a’ is not pronounced like ‘en’ in french

    I think it could be spelled rendévou though

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  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    E should definitely be an A or even an O. Shouldn’t really have an E.

    Rän-di-vü

    TIL the pural for Rendezvous is Rendezvous. You just pronounce the S

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• pancakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But sometimes words in English have silent Zs like in the word “rendezvous”.

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• MrBusiness@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Rendezvous isn’t even that bad. What really grabs my goat are the pronunciations for colonel and choir.

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