• flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Would that be everyone?

        Honestly, the makeup of the words (this and weds) are suck mental… I both love and hate English for these ridiculous discrepancies…

        Its not a language, its a fustercluck!

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          1 year ago

          Not everyone, no.

          You couldn’t make a phonetic English, as the anglosphere will never agree on how words are pronounced.

          Even within the UK they couldn’t agree. Even within the US they couldn’t agree.

          Australia is all on the same page, but not the same as the UK or US

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            1 year ago

            And don’t even bother with us non natives I mix and match pronounciation as I please. No one can stop me.

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              1 year ago

              I don’t follow the usual style on the networking device - a router - I pronounce it as rooter because it provides a route (rhymes with root) for data, as opposed to the woodworking tool - a router (rhymes with doubter) which would be a poorly descriptive name

              Of course Americans pronounce both those words (router and router) the same