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[-] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago

To help my American lemmings with pronunciation: Red-ing and Bark-shere.

It's a very good university too.

[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Anglophones have no right to complain about French pronunciation. What the fuck is this shit?

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 8 points 3 months ago

Half the reason our pronunciation is so weird is that a bunch of French guys took over England

[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It would be so much easier if we had accents over our vowels, like in a lot of languages to indicate which of that vowels sounds was wanted.

[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 months ago

https://oldenglish.info/advpronunciationguide.html

English used to be phonetic, it's just people started changing the way they pronounced vowels, but the spelling stayed the same. For example, both the k and the gh in "knight" used to be pronounced.

[-] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

Tell me about it English is a bastardised language made up of so many different languages rules. Have you heard of Lee and Perrins Worcestershire sauce? It's pronounced wuster-shere.

Great sauce btw, real umami flavour and great on cheese on toast.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My favourite is Wymondham. (Like the blowy kind,) Wind-um.

Also, fuck Worcester sauce.

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago

I like Towcester.
Excellent for breakfast crumpets.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

James Acaster's classic Kettering Town FC bit starts with another example ๐Ÿ˜

[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I've heard it as "English isn't a language. It's three languages under a trench coat, pretending to be a language."

[-] quantenzitrone 2 points 3 months ago
[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Yes. I have also heard of "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

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