Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.

• BritishDuffer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Putt is shorthand for “put and only put”.

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  • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As opposed to “put and do something else”?

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No get! Only put

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Phonetically, put: /pʊt/ vs. putt: /pʌt/

  ʊ is the sound from words like “book”, “hook”, “pull” or "should.

  ʌ is the sound from words like “gut”, “double”, “butter”, “luck”, etc.

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  • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks! Yes it’s weird. Cut and put sound tutally different wile cut and putt are pronounced the same

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Put is something you do to something (I will put this down), putt is a technique in golf (watch me land this putt).

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  • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks!

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