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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Noemon on May 30, 2025, 08:32:19 PM »

The other day there was a reporter on my local public radio station who repeatedly pronounced "Europe" as "Yerp". It drove me up a wall.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Brinestone on May 28, 2025, 01:50:08 PM »

Daniel's school counselor pronounced at least 2/3 of her N's with a little bit of an ng. She kept asking if we had any questiongs. It was subtle but interesting.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Ela on May 27, 2025, 09:52:26 AM »

Just sounds wrong. 

In other news (and another GBBO pronounciation fail), in Mexican week (several years ago, I'm behind watching) they made "tackos" with "pico de gallow"! 

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Tante Shvester on May 27, 2025, 01:02:36 AM »

Sure!  Axe anyone.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Jonathon on May 26, 2025, 09:19:19 AM »

It's a pretty common nonstandard pronunciation, along with "asteriks".

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Ela on May 25, 2025, 03:39:33 PM »

A newscaster just said "asterick" for asterisk. In what world is "asterick" a word? 

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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff

« Last post by Porter on May 24, 2025, 10:28:18 PM »

I could only make sense of it by thinking hard about what the Latin roots are for words like "atom", "hydrogen", "proton", "helium", "element", etc..

Most of those words, as commonly used, have nothing to do with their root.

I normally think of word "helium" is just the word for element #2.  I could use it or hear it 10,000 without thinking about its connection to "helios".

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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff

« Last post by rivka on May 20, 2025, 09:50:30 PM »

Indeed.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff

« Last post by Brinestone on May 20, 2025, 06:06:36 PM »

That is almost impossible to make sense of.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff

« Last post by Tante Shvester on May 19, 2025, 10:56:03 AM »

Here's an article about Atomic Theory written in Anglish, which is English purged of all words of non-Germanic origin.  It reads like a fantasy novel.