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Interesting, that we gravitated towards a similar pronunciation due to a conflict in the beforementioned terms. It's unfortunate that proper English pronunciati
by Phemist 7y ago
Interesting, that we gravitated towards a similar pronunciation due to a conflict in the beforementioned terms. It's unfortunate that proper English pronunciation does not always cross the North Sea :P. There are actually plenty of words in English that I have only written and read, and have never heard or spoken out loud... and I consider myself a decent speaker of English.
- aasasd 7y agoOh boy. If you want a bag full of surprises, take up listening to audiobooks in English.
- Symbiote 7y ago> There are actually plenty of words in English that I have only written and read, and have never heard or spoken out loud … and I'm a well-educated native speaker. English proudly possesses a prodigious panoply¹ of… um… phrase particles. ¹ I have never heard this word spoken.
- Phemist 7y agoHah, even simple words can be confusing. My English friends seem to end the word `idea` with a, to my ears, clearly audible `r`, but look at me funny when I mention it to them. Whereas my American friends seem to pronounce it in a more straightforward way.. I also love listening to people speak the "pronunciation poem" out loud. It's very interesting to hear how the pronunciation of each second word is changed, just to make it rhyme with the first (mispronounced) word. https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciationpoem.html https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciationpoem....