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xkcd #2907: Schwa (imgs.xkcd.com)

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Doug's cousin, the one from London, runs a Bumble love cult.

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[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

Took me a goddamn while. Goddamn English and the lack of phonetic spelling!

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I was a little slow too because some of those words have other possible pronunciations

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Which is why we shouldn't have phonetic spelling!

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