Comment on The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.

• breakingcups@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So pronounced phone-tick?

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Three syllables, so it would be fo-ne-tik.

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• aliceblossom@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is not correct. English is simply not phonetic and therefore it’s impossible to spell any English word phonetically.

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• AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  funneddic

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That's transposing it how we sound to them, though.

    If the above were pronounced in a baseline kiwi accent the U would just get deeper. The vowel shift goes the other way if I'm to recreate their pronunciation using my own accent:

    Fer ned ik (US)

    Föe net eck (UK)

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• livus@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Foe net ick.

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