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Being it's the Romans, and there are a lot of years of Romans, wouldn't one expect such a hub... Every Wear?
by b112 9mo ago
Being it's the Romans, and there are a lot of years of Romans, wouldn't one expect such a hub...
Every Wear?
- scott_w 9mo agoWhile I get what you're going for, unfortunately, the pronunciation of Wear means it doesn't work. The correct pronunciation is more like Whee-ah (sounds a little bit like wheel) as opposed to sounding like "where" ;-)
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- syspec 9mo agoStill works, just Aussie
- dkdbejwi383 9mo agoThe vowel/diphthong in wear (as in wearing a towel, rhymes with “care”, “there”) and Wear (homophone with weir, rhymes with “steer”, “near”) are not the same in Australian English.
- syspec 9mo agoI guess that's why it's called comedy.
- c22 9mo agoI was thinking Boston could pull it off.
- graemep 9mo agoNear enough for a dad joke, and works perfectly visually (a bit like "there are 10 types of people - those who know binary and those who do not"). In fact I find your lack of appreciation of the humour a bit wearing, not to say wear-ed.
- ahazred8ta 9mo agoTbere are two types of people: people who divide people into categories and people who don't. https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2016/02/cartoon-of-day-pedants-revolt.html#-of-1381 https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2016/02/cartoon-of-da...
- nkrisc 9mo agoSo more like “weir”.
- scott_w 9mo agoThat’s the word I was looking for!
- Kye 9mo ago"Correct" is doing a lot of work there. Dialects are a thing. I have never heard anyone pronounce it like whee-ah. They would get a lot of chuckles here where it's pronounced the same as where. Whee-ah is a little emphasis away from sounding like a donkey.
- scott_w 9mo agoIt’s not a dialect thing, the river is literally called “River Wear” irrespective of your accent or dialect. Plymouth (Plih Muth) and Tynemouth (Tyne Mouth) are pronounced completely differently and I don’t call Plymouth “Ply Mouth” just because I live near Tynemouth.