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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by pooka on August 30, 2024, 10:18:37 AM »

What about the sh in fiduciary?  And does it depend in if you're pronouncing the second i? 

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by pooka on August 30, 2024, 10:16:05 AM »

I do the "prounounce it twice" way.  Which I guess makes sense because I learned it from my father, who learned English in the Western US. 

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« Last post by pooka on August 30, 2024, 10:13:45 AM »

My husband likes the outlander books, but has only experienced them on audio.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Ela on August 27, 2024, 11:25:40 AM »

I didn't realize it either till I saw the meme about it.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Jonathon on August 19, 2024, 07:42:34 PM »

No problem! I didn't even realize before now that there was variation in how some people said it or that my pronunciation didn't match the standard dictionary pronunciation.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Ela on August 19, 2024, 06:22:55 PM »

Thanks for your thoughts on it.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Jonathon on August 19, 2024, 08:48:44 AM »

It doesn't strike me as the kind of variation that's typically regional. And if it were regional, there's a fair chance it'd be in listed in the dictionary. I think it's more likely just an idiosyncratic thing, but I'm really not sure.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Ela on August 18, 2024, 08:59:26 PM »

I pronounce it the way Merriam-Webster says. So does my spouse.

Maybe the pronounciation differences are regional?

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Jonathon on August 18, 2024, 01:08:40 PM »

Merriam-Webster says "län-ˈje-və-tē" (so a regular "n" sound followed by a soft "g"), but I guess I pronounce it like "long-gevity" (with an "ng" sound followed by a soft "g"). I'm not really pronouncing the "g" twice, because there isn't actually a "g" in the "ng" sound—it's just a nasal sound pronounced in the same place as a hard "g". But it makes sense why someone would think of that as pronouncing the "g" twice, since most people think of pronunciation in terms of spelling (which is why people also talk about "'g' dropping" in words like "singin'").

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Ela on August 18, 2024, 11:26:56 AM »

So I saw a meme asking why we pronounce the "g" in "longevity" twice. Pretty sure I don't.

So what's the correct pronounciation?