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>If a word is so frequently "mispronounced" that you're likely to stumble frequently stumble upon a "mispronunciation" using this service, then it's not a mispr
by ThrustVectoring 11y ago
>If a word is so frequently "mispronounced" that you're likely to stumble frequently stumble upon a "mispronunciation" using this service, then it's not a mispronunciation at all.
Start thinking of "proper" pronunciation being a dialect (specifically, "Proper English"), and the objection comes back in force.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoThere's no such dialect as "proper English". There are some standardised prestige dialects.
- ThrustVectoring 11y agoI think we're in agreement here. If you take a descriptivist version of the original feature request, it's along the lines of "please do not show me pronunciations that are from a non-prestigious dialect."