Me listening to audiobooks, “he winded his way up the path”. I always say winded like winding a spool of thread, but hear it told like deprived of air from the narrators…
That doesn’t sound correct. If you’re talking about breath, I would say “He became winded on his way up the path” or something like that. If you’re talking about traveling, I would say “He wound his way up the path.”
surely it should be “wound” anyway?
“Woond?”
“No, Wownd!”
Scone.
I pronounced Tagalog tag-uh-log for years until I met my Filipino wife. Tuh-gah-log.
Yeah, that’s my favorite girl scout cookie!
Chitin.
(kai-tin)
Calliope
Hegemony
Vitiligo
These are a few of my recent ones.
/ˌkʌːlˈaɪɔpi/
/hɛdʒˈɛːmʌni/
/vɪtɪlˈaɪɡoʊ/? I think?
I kinda suck at IPA.
cal lie o pee? Think I got that one.
Haver never heard hegemony spoken aloud.
Jesus, I’ve been saying vih tag lio.
hedge-uh-moe-knee?
That’s what I thought too, but nope
For the record, I like this one better.
Yeah youve got the first one.
It’s hedge em en ee. It’s a weird one.
I just had to re-look up the pronunciation for vitiligo and I’ve been so far off too. My pronunciation has been vit ill ih go. But it’s vit ih LIE go ?
Words are dumb, hahahaha
The New York Public Library has Dial 917-ASK-NYPL (917-275-6975) to connect with librarians via phone Monday through Saturday from 10 AM to 6 PM. Available in English and español.
In fact I would wager almost any library would work for this. Librarians are by and large the most helpful and I judgmental people I have ever met. Every single interaction I’ve ever had with them has been positive.
Candelabra
The CandelaBratm constantly emits a soft glow, so you can find it without turning on the lights.
Candle ahh brah
How can it be read incorrectly? “Can-della-bra?”
Candell-abra is how I was pronouncing it. Yes, I know it’s the wrong way
It’s pretty close, sounds like you’re just pausing at the wrong spot.
Can’t you just type a word into merriam webster and get an audio pronouciation?
Typing requires thumbs; something only primates have.
…another thing that (some) primates have is an island where rich people go to molest children.
Some of these primates are greedy and/or terrible primates, and they don’t want you to look up any connection between a primate named Trump and a primate named Epstein (spoiler alert, those primates rape underaged primates and brag about it to each other).
Mate… This post is about a funny meme about word pronunciation. There is no need to bring us politics here (or any other nation politics for that matter). There are other places you can go to to talk about it.
I’m just doing my part. Sorry luv.
Folks like you are gonna tell me that I’m doing too much, meanwhile others say we aren’t doing enough.
My secret is; I know what to do and when.
Edit: checks notes, amemds notes: microblogs on Lemmy are probably apologetic fascists, or I am very drunk.
Double edit: Lady butterfly!? We were just talking about pulling hair together! I feel betrayed in a small box.
Or…
Chitin.
Ichor.
Ick urr
KY-tin
When we were teenagers, my sister had obviously read the phrase “faux pas” and used it (correctly) in a sentence but pronouncing it “fox pass”.
It was perfect. Like a Mike Myers “what the french call… I don’t know what”.
But isn’t the whole point of that to avoid the “oh sweetie…”?
More to avoid the “oh sweetie” from people you know and care about.
Though I wonder how much you could trust the pronunciation if they outsourced the call center to an English-speaking third-world country like Alabama.
For me, this was Ganymede.
ganny meade? gahny meade? Don’t hold out on us!
I pronounced it gan-ih-midee like a Greek person’s name. It’s supposed to be gani meed
Someone didn’t watch The Expanse.
I read it though
I learned how to pronounce Nguyen from that show.
My buddy says “chasm” with a soft ch. We’ve tried to correct him. He doesn’t hear us. He also pronounces “tome” like “tomb”.
We play DnD together if anyone was wondering why these words would come up with any regularity.
Does he say “chaos” with a soft “ch” as well?
He also pronounces “tome” like “tomb”
My roommate in college did that. Drove me nuts, but the worst was that he rhymed “epitome” with “tome.”
No, his chaos is thankfully chaos. It would be kind of fitting if it weren’t, though.
Social studies teacher in high school dinged me 5 points for pronouncing epitome as epi-tome. Ended up with 95/100 but it’s the principle of the matter.
I don’t agree with that decision. Unless you had been specifically taught the proper pronunciation previously and still mispronounced it, the teacher should have just corrected you and moved on.
PTSD flashback to my ESL little self always mispronouncing choir after they told me to join to practice my English.
Another funny story! An ex of mine was an exchange student in Germany (from Canada) when she was a high schooler, and she attended a children’s choir concert where they sang “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off”, and in the line “you say tomato, I say tomato”, they pronounced “tomato” the same way each time.
I total believe you’re not in a weird magic cult winks
I’ve heard “chasm” pronounced as both “chaz-um” and “kaz-um”
The correct one is “kaz-um,” just like “chaos” isn’t “chay-oss.”
“kazum” is acceptable in my book. “Toom” is strange for a book though.
Could build this pretty easily with TTS and a dictionary.
Insert me saying C-hash to a programmer friend and promptly being roasted for the rest of the evening.
Sharp is a pretty dumb name for that symbol imo
Yes, it’s obviously C-octothorp.
You’re not wrong, though I was a musician before a developer, so it always kind of made sense to me.
oh, yeah it’s from music - I should have clocked that
TIL
