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I think this should also do a phoneme based comparison, for example the photo sharing website Flickr is pronounced like this word (as a slang word it is well kn
by maartenscholl 11y ago
I think this should also do a phoneme based comparison, for example the photo sharing website Flickr is pronounced like this word (as a slang word it is well known) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flikker https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flikker
- sovok 11y agoOr wix.com, which sounds like wichs in German (wank).
- pluma 11y agoThe amazing thing about wix.com is that they went all-out with their marketing in Germany and embraced the phonetic similarity. I'm not sure what audience they're aiming for by having the ads consist of people explaining that (and how) they wank -- with the obvious "twist ending" where they make it clear they're referring to using their product rather than masturbating. But I guess anyone turned off their product by the "racy" ads likely would have avoided it because of the name in the first place.
- ludamad 11y agoDo you know of any high-quality phonemic dictionaries?
- schoen 11y agoThere is such a thing for English, the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Very, very useful, although specific to American English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary I've succeeding in using it to solve puzzles that had to do with how words were pronounced, as opposed to how they were spelled.