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celticgeek:
When I started elementary school (1945) the blackboards at school were actually black, and were called blackboards.  When they built a new school (1952) the new blackboards were green, but were still called blackboards, out of habit, probably.

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: celticgeek on 17 Apr 2020, 18:56 ---When I started elementary school (1945) the blackboards at school were actually black, and were called blackboards.  When they built a new school (1952) the new blackboards were green, but were still called blackboards, out of habit, probably.

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Sounds like it's a generational holderover, then.

Tova:
Because I'm doing an online Python course, and the instructor's pronunciation of 'python' is driving me to distraction.

How to pronounce -on endings?


--- Quote ---Is there any rhyme or reason to why we pronounce -on endings in two different ways? Sometimes -on sounds like a short o as in marathon, hexagon, and neutron. But more often, the o sounds like a schwa as in carbon, watermelon, and abandon. Is it just a matter of what language the word was derived from?

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pwhodges:
That article seems spot-on to me.  Python is listed as variable, and I reduce the -on for the snake, but not (or not so much) for the language.

LTK:
Why are fingerguns so different from handguns?

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