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My wife says "wheelbarrel" and I giggle every time.
Though I want to know why Wednesday is pronounced "wendsday" or "wensday". The n is after the d!
The d before n is inherited from the original name Wodans dag (like Tiu's dag, Thor's dag and Frey's dag inherited through the Saxons and Danes from pagan germanic gods)
The rest is just linguistic shift through the centuries of changing language. Like Dag -> Day while for example in German Dag -> Tag.
But the root of the word is still Wodan then old english Weoden then Wedn.
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You can just look up words in the dictionary and look up the phonetic pronunciation key to refresh your memory. It pays to do this every once in a while.
- genre
- only
- gif
- croissant
- Aloysius
- Edinburgh
The rest I can understand, but... only?
I had heard the word “only” spoken in English, but didn’t know how to spell it. At the same time, I had seen the word written, but thought it was pronounced “on-lie” — oddly enough, I had never heard anyone use “on-lie” in speech; I thought it was one of those words that exist but aren’t used very much, like “splendid” or “indubitably”.
I just remembered I also had trouble for so long with the English words “union” (pronounced like English “onion”) and “onion” (pronounced “onny-on” or “on-ion”).
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I said automaton wrong for years. I said auto-maton instead of au-tomoton. I still cringe a bit thinking about it :-/
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I got Linux wrong for a while
We've probably all said a sentence that no other person in history has ever said.
If people can correct you then it means they understood it perfectly clear.
You underestimate the narcissism of small differences. As exemplified in the below recent local news clip that demonstrates the publics furor over the correct pronunciation of "pierogi."
^Also a great look into the mind of the average white working class swing state voter and where their priorities sit
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Trough?
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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