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This is a brilliant research tool, because it can give you fast, unbiased answers about how English is spoken by real people instead of what's prescriptively co
by goodside 11y ago
This is a brilliant research tool, because it can give you fast, unbiased answers about how English is spoken by real people instead of what's prescriptively correct. Any English dictionary will tell you that coup de grâce is pronounced with an /s/ sound at the end, but searching on YouPronounceIt it's actually very hard to find an English speaker who says it this way.
- dalke 11y agoI agree that it's a useful tool, but I disagree that it's unbiased. It is biased by the people or algorithms behind the speech-to-text conversion. For example, if you search for "Yawk" you'll see one match, to a park ranger kidding someone from "New Yawk". This transcription was done by a human, which you can tell from how the text does "yeahhh", and how later text is elided or reworded for clarity. That is, around 0:40 the speaker says ".. unusual rock outcroppings. I mean they still attract people.." but the text says ".. unusual rock outcroppings that still attract people". Therefore, I think the transcriptionist used "Yawk" to highlight that the ranger was making a joke about differences in dialect. That said, this bias may be low. I did not know that about coup de grâce. Thanks!