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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 101 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Got called out once for pronouncing epitome as Epi-tome.

That one stung more than Camus as Cah-mus instead of Cah-moo. At least thats just the French fucking with us.

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It can happen with common words too! Like I didn’t know I was pronouncing Thai food wrong till that John Oliver episode

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] nifty@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] nifty@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You never heard anyone say Thailand? Or you just never made the connection?

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it’s the former, I also think I maybe imagined the “Th” when someone else said it. I also may have been surrounded by others who mispronounced both.

So in short I blame society /s

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So in short I blame society /s

Ha! Typical millennial

Edit: since it's not always clear on the internet, I too am being sarcastic.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's how I refer to... never mind

[–] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uh, thanks for the heads up. I’ve been pronouncing epitome both correctly and incorrectly my entire adult life because for some reason I thought they were two different words.

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If anyone's wondering and since it's not clarified here..

Epitome is pronounced like this: ||UK|US| |phonetic|/ɪˈpɪt.ə.mi/|/ɪˈpɪt̬.ə.mi/| |non-phonetic|epittomee|epiddomee|

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been an avid reader since I was 6/7 and I hate reading dictionary listings with phonetic spellings as ironically they only make it harder for me to know how to pronounce a word. I'm also a native speaker.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Learning the IPA is quite good in that case

[–] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I can’t believe you don’t remember what an upside down e sounds like.

[–] PatMustard@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

epiddomee

I know Americans pronounce Ts as Ds, but reading it explicitly written down is like being poked in the eye

[–] robotica@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait till you find out that they pronounce Ds as semi-trilled Rs!

[–] PatMustard@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what that is but I'm intrigued and afraid!

[–] robotica@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're just like trilled Rs, but have only one trill, hence semi-trilled.

[–] PatMustard@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I'm trying this out with my own mouth and it's weird

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll pronounce a T when you pronounce an R

[–] PatMustard@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a new one, what's wrong with Rs?

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most English people have a non-rhotic accent, meaning not pronouncing the r after vowels so words like "better" become "betta".

[–] PatMustard@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This one seems like it's very accent-dependent. A cockney geezer will definitely say "be'aah", but a geordie would say "be'eh and someone from the west country would say "betterrrr". I think the American pronunciation makes the R sound a lot longer (you can tell I don't know all the property linguistics words!) so anything shorter probably sounds weird to you.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sure it's definitely regional, just like accents in the US. But generally in England at least it's non-rhotic. I know Scotland is different, maybe Wales too

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It took seeing videos of Elden Ring lore before it clicked with me that "cuckoo" is "coo-coo" and not "cuck-oh," like, the chickens in Zelda.

[–] PatMustard@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

It's more like "cook-ooh", the two syllables aren't the same sound. It's basically just the sound that actual cuckoos make.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

If it's any consolation, I pronounced it the same way for years.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like a hippopotamoo, but somewhat more existential and obsessed with arcana like boulders and mountains for exercise to discover happiness in life.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

that's the one ! 😁

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

And they're gonna fuck with you even further....

Albert Camus [alˈbɛːʁ kaˈmy]

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Para-dig-em checking in. The bulb that lit up when I connected the sound with the word was pretty bright, but made me feel awfully dim. It changed my whole paradigm.