• Nastybutler@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I used to think “chaos” had the same “ch” as “church” when I was a kid. Don’t know why I never heard it spoken aloud by someone earlier than I did.

    But the one that I find inexcusable is Southern US people who pronounce “jalapeno” with a “j” and “n” instead of an “ha” and “ñ” even though they know better. Sounds so willfully ignorant

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      3 months ago

      Chaos, pronounced like multiple “ciao” in Italian. 🤌


      And on your jalapeño comment: I spent 6 months sending my coworker “hola” in morning greetings until he told me that he thought “hola” was just me saying “Holler [holla] at a player [playa]”. To his credit, he took German on high school. To his discredit, we had been working in Spain for 2 weeks when we had this conversation.