Submitted 1 year ago by tja@sh.itjust.works to xkcd@lemmy.world
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I pronounce the ‘u’ in ‘pronunciation’ like in ‘putting’ but the ‘ou’ in ‘pronounce’ like in ‘wound’.
[The word “Tuesday”, with each letter labeled by a box with an arrow:] T: As in buffet u: As in minute e: As in record s: As in use d: As in moped a: As in bass y: As in gyro [Caption below the panel:] Pet peeve: Ambiguous pronunciation guides
The english language is … missing some litterary updates.
A is pronounced [ei]. E is [ii] and I is [ai]. What’s up with that.
I didnt know gyro could be pronunced in multiple ways
There's gyro as in gyroscope, where the Y vowel sound is like the word "eye", and there's gyro as in the Greek sandwich where the Y vowel is more like the vowel sound in "sea". The latter is often seen only as "gyros" because that's what the actual Greek word is, but because that seems like a plural in English the S is sometimes dropped.
the greek food gyro is kinda pronounced "yee-ro"
oh hey it me
If I’m feeling less lazy and exhausted later I might just have to take voice clips and try to create this variation on pronouncing “Tuesday”.
funnystuff97@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“My name is Perry, not Terry, with a ‘P’ as in ‘Pterodactyl’.”
tuesday@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
“Thompson, with a ‘P’, as in psychology”
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah… silent Ps are weird 😅
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Depends on your aim.
Ryan213@lemmy.world 1 year ago
LOL I forgot where that’s from!