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I once worked for a CEO that pronounced "year" as "yeah". I loved it. Every meeting felt like a pep rally because it was sprinkled with phrases like "we've got
by craftkiller 2y ago
I once worked for a CEO that pronounced "year" as "yeah". I loved it. Every meeting felt like a pep rally because it was sprinkled with phrases like "we've got four yeahs" and "we worked all yeah on this".
- alsetmusic 2y agoNortheast USA, maybe NY or NJ?
- craftkiller 2y agoI think he was Australian but we were in silicon valley at the time (though I live+work in that area now).
- nopassrecover 2y agoYeah I can picture it. The non-rhotic R on its own doesn’t narrow it further, but there would be distinction within Australia based on the sounds of the “ea” part. Off the cuff I can picture some Australians taking it more nasally at the top of the palate sort of yee-ah (think Steve Irwin), a more neutral yeehr with a hint of final r (but more clipped and mono syllable than an American accent), or even a yair that might push as far as yuhhh (heading towards a sort of hybrid of Californian Valley Girl and the posh British accent used in American media). Bit of an exploration of the evoking Australian accent here: https://amp.abc.net.au/article/103321146 https://amp.abc.net.au/article/103321146
- dylan604 2y agoAustralians have other speech things too like shortening words and ending them with a long E sound. breakfast => breaky(or however they spell it down under). or adding an "oh" syllable to words like right-o
- hoseja 2y agoAll dose poiple, all dose hamboigahs.
- HPsquared 2y agoA LOT of people in the nuclear industry pronounce it as 'nucular'. I'm a little horrified.
- bena 2y agoThis may be wrong or apocryphal or a third thing: But I recall reading that this is a deliberate affect used by those who work with nuclear material. Partly as a shibboleth, partly as a means of making the word easier to say quickly. It came up because George W Bush would pronounce it “nucular” and that was given as the reason. All if my memory serves that is.
- HPsquared 2y agoIt would make sense as a different spelling and pronunciation I guess. Like "molecular" or "ocular" or "particular". Fits in better.
- blipvert 2y agoSimpson fans, surely, for obvious reasons. I’d bet that they love the foilage in fall, too.
- sjcsjc 2y agoSomeone has to say cromulent at this point
- freedomben 2y agoAlways remember, "A Noble Spririt Embiggens The Smallest Man."
- kazinator 2y agostd::embiggen is coming to C++28, as part of the implementation of explode semantics.
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- DiggyJohnson 2y agoBoston?
- freedomben 2y agoQuote possibly, I'm guessing a resident of Boston for many yeahs
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