Strawberry should be spelled with an H

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• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think you might be the only one …

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• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  shounds like a shtupid shuggestion to me

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  • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    now you sound like Sylvester the cat lol

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• its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Babes, I think you might be saying it wrong. The s in straw is the same as the s in snake

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’ve got a lisp

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  • guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tbh, this might actually be what’s going on

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• abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sean Connery? I thought you were dead!

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s no SH sound in strawberry, you’re just pronouncing it wrong. (And that’s something I almost never say, as language is always changing).

  See the pronunciation guide here for “straw”, and click on the speaker, you’ll hear the correct pronunciation.

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• medusa@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I very rarely meet anyone who says “truck” - most people I know say “chruck” and when they say “truck” it sounds very forced. Same with other words that start with “tr”. They push the word through their teeth rather than putting their tongue on the roof of their mouth.

  Enunciation is key.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes! It’s exactly that. A lazy T

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s shilly.

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• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You’re saying it wrong…

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• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This might be a cannabis thought…

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good point. I’m gonna get high and see if I pronounce it differently.

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• owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hmmm… nope.

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think this way of speaking developed in the USA over the last 30 years or so.

  I saw a video about that a few months ago how people seem to put the sh sound into more and more places. Like they don’t say stormtrooper, they say shtormshtrooper. Can’t find it anymore and don’t remember the channel.

  To me it sounds weird. We learned this as a distinct difference to German that it’s straw and not shtraw, like it would be pronounced in German.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    See, that one I don’t do. Storm is fine. It’s anything with str.

    Shtraight. Shtrip.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Looks to me like you’re mixing the English r sound into the st sound.

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now that intriguing, I’ve never encountered this.

    Hooe you can find the video - I’ll go look.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      in-chri-ging

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Found the video! youtu.be/F2X1pKEHIYw

      @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do you have this problem only with “strawberry” or also with “straw” alone? What about other words beginning with str-, like street or straight?

  My first language doesn’t have syllable-initial st-, yet pronouncing any of these words is no problem for me at all in English.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shtraw as well. And sthrength. But I can pronounce stuck, stoop, etc just find. It’s “str” that’s the issue.

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    • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Either speech impediment or German.

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    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      may I ask what your first language is?

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• SlightlyNormal@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve never paid mind to it, but I think I pronounce it like you do. If I focus on not hitting the sh sound it sounds English, my normal accent is West-coast American.

  Straw, strength, strip, all of those words I place a blending sh sound before the tr sound. If anything it might sound closest to ‘schrawberry’.

  Interesting! I’ll pay attention to how others say it going forward.

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  • SlightlyNormal@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just poked around YouTube and it seems pretty common. This short has two guys saying it the way I do: youtube.com/shorts/hbU9NOvOUik

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• webkitten@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We want Homerun Homer.

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• Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I prefer spelling it with an extra “Raw”

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• klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean… If we’re talking about changing spelling due to pronunciation, there are other words much more fitting. Enough, women, ambition, etc. That’s how we get things like the Ghoti spelling of “Fish.” Or, for a Minecraft reference, ghoughpteighbteau instead of potato.

  Language is weird, and it’s hard to map spelling to sound 1:1, especially over time

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