As a Canadian ..... no doot aboot it

"Epitome"

Archipelago

Still don’t know the correct way.

Fuschia is pronounced Fuck-tosia

Elegant

For some reason I said “eglant”

Harsh lesson to learn in a 8th grade class speech.

Mine:

• adolescence = "a-doller-sanse"
• awry = "aww-reeee"
• banal = "banal"

You are correct; the "correct" way to correct speech issues like this is to repeat their story back to them using the correct wording.

For my 4yo, currently he is saying hims rather than his. Rather than saying in a corrective way "his, is how you say that, not hims"; you repeat the story, "oh, that is his tractor!".

None of the Dune audio works can agree on how "Tleilaxu" is pronounced. I've heard everything from "telly-axe-uh" to "t'lay-lax-you"

And now I was like - What? Isn't it supposed to be Tleilax? But yeah, Teixcalaanli Empire, I miss the Memory Called Empire world, I need a third book now!

Why would you pronounce it "eesh"?

"The History of English Podcast" is really fun and gets into the weeds of why English is such a mess.

Not be be confused with "The History of England Podcast", which is also really good.

Poppycock. It's mispronounced German and Latin and Greek and French and... well... English, all with a delightful seasoning of mispronounced Dutch and Spanish.

Acetaminophen was hilarious

JRPGs are like 50% book so I say we still count it.

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goddamnit

TIL

a normal language like spanish that has regular orthography

que necesitas para entender que esto es algo falso? Un Casco?

Spanish is one of the best languages for having the spelling match the pronunciation, but it's not perfect. First of all, you can't spell something just based on hearing it because a /k/ sound can be a 'c' or a 'k', and a /s/ can be an 's' or a 'c'. It also has silent letters like 'h'. Going the other way, seeing the spelling of Mexico, Xalapa, Oaxaca, etc. would lead someone who didn't know to try to pronounce them with a /ks/ sound, but they're really pronounced as if they were spelled Mejico, Jalapa and Oajaca. Then, there are loan words like "psicologia" where the "p" is retained from the original language, but not pronounced in Spanish.