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I’m going to guess that Ever Unicorn is not a real ship name.
by irrational 5y ago
I’m going to guess that Ever Unicorn is not a real ship name.
- kstrauser 5y agoBzzt. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:729388/mmsi:564995000/imo:9196967/vessel:EVER_UNICORN https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:72...
- bombcar 5y agoEver Chaste was my guess, alas I erred. I wonder if Ever Cleaver is a rhyme or a cutter.
- dylan604 5y agowhat would it be rhyming with?
- melissalobos 5y agoEver. In some versions of English(of which there are many many dialects) it is pronounced nearly the same as "clever" so "Ever Clever".
- dylan604 5y agoIn some versions of English it is mispronounced would be more apropos
- melissalobos 5y ago> In some versions of English it is mispronounced This is more a misunderstanding of how dialects work. There is no "English" if you consider British, Welsh, Scottish, and Australian English all English which most people do. There are even more extreme forms of English which all can be mutually intelligible with English, but sound very different. There is no one way to pronounce anything, except in a particular dialect.
- irrational 5y agoYou mean like how Americans mispronounce herbs, maths, aluminium, water, etc.?
- FPGAhacker 5y agoThis is true, but Cleaver does not rhyme with Clever.
- melissalobos 5y agoIn Standard American English true. There are many many dialects and local versions. Listen to the Great British Bakeoff for one full episode and note if you ever disagree with any pronunciations. Now go to Indonesia, where I spent a great deal of time and tell me that Cleaver is never pronounced Clever.
- dylan604 5y agoThere are always integration problems when you deviate from the standard.
- nine_k 5y agoUnlike French or Spanish, English has no standard.
- irrational 5y agoThe Standard? You mean the Queen’s dialect?
- EdwardDiego 5y agoWell, Indonesian English wasn't an argument I was expecting. :D I'm a Kiwi, we're renowned for butchering English. Or as we call it, Unglush. For some fun examples, here's a video made by Australians parodying our accent[0]. And here's another one[1], although what's funny as a Kiwi is to me it just sounds like Australians saying "deck", but to them it sounds like Kiwis saying "dick". But then once when I asked my friend's Australian partner to pass me a pen once, she was confused until I pronounced it (to me) as "peeen", which felt like I was taking the piss out of her accent, but she understood me then, she had thought I was asking for a pin... Oh, and here's one from the Flight of the Conchords playing on our accent and American comprehension thereof.[2] I've never heard cleaver pronounced "clever" (so far in my life), but then, lever is often pronounced here in a way that rhymes with "cleaver" (i.e., "leaver" vs. "lever") so I can entirely understand that the pronunciation of cleaver could change to clever in other countries' English. Ah, English, the mongrel cur of languages. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVHZwI8pcA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVHZwI8pcA [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6c4Nupnup0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6c4Nupnup0 [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRdg1MOYxHo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRdg1MOYxHo
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoIf Cleaver is Clever in some dialects can Ever Clear ever be Ever Claire?