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I'll happily argue that, regardless of the path by which a given meme's promulgators happened to stumble upon an actual English word of whose existence they wer
by aaronem 13y ago
I'll happily argue that, regardless of the path by which a given meme's promulgators happened to stumble upon an actual English word of whose existence they were (and perhaps still are) entirely ignorant, the established pronunciation is correct nonetheless.
Besides, if you start from /dɔːg/, you more or less invariably end up at /dɔːgə/ or /doʊgə/, both of which are so ugly to speak and to hear that arguing against them seems worthwhile.
- anigbrowl 13y agoThe existing word Doge is Italian and describes the rulers of a particular few Italian city states, so I don't think generalizing from that makes much sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge I personally pronounce mem-Doge as Doggie, which I find an amusing parallel to the grammatical mismatches upon which the humor depends.
- aaronem 13y agoDoge is indeed originally an Italian word, but it's also a loanword in English [1], this being of course the entire basis on which rests my argument above. And I try not to pronounce the meme version at all. [1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doge#English http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doge#English