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English is weird
Thrillho:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=efDYvtj2Rlo
nekowafer:
What poem is that, May?
Barmymoo:
This one, it was linked in the pointless thread and then here.
nekowafer:
Oh, interesting. I consider myself pretty good with things and would probably mispronounce many of those words. I just don't hear them pronounced out loud so I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce them.
But I saw that link and thought of my ex (and friend) Chris, who pronounces pseudo as "suede-o" and says "for all intensive purposes".
Ben:
I do quite a lot if work with people who don't speak English as a first language, and the most common problem by far is that English spellings can vary randomly. "Guarantee" and "warranty" both essentially mean the same thing, come from the same root but look completely different in print. The "-ough" phoneme has multiple pronunciations, with no indicator of which applies in any given situation.
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