Comment on That time Toyota accidentally created a military vehicle

• Hupf@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  https://xkcd.com/1243/

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• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  *AN Africa

  If the first sound (not necessarily letter) of the word is a wovel, “a” becomes “an”

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  • thenextguy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Anne Elk

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  • UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    wovel

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    • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ja, das ist ein wovel. Pron.: vo-fel.

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    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is one I still have trouble with. If a word contains both W and V, I never know in which order

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      • RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So quick to disawov your knowledge of the English language! Hovewer, it can be owerpovering. The current heatvawe doesn’t make it easier, either. But no reason to owerblov the situation, even if you’d get it wrong tvelwe times or so; not like a couple of dovnwotes matter.

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