And people who don't read make fun of you for it.

That's a slightly different phenomenon called a mondegreen (Hendrix singing 'scuse me while I kiss this guy' etc)

Thing is, I know she knows exactly what she is saying. The context is correct, she knows what the words mean, she just didn't grow up around people who spoke that wide a vocabulary, and while working in blue collar trades, she was looked down on for all them fancy college words.

She can swear with the best pipe fitters, well, because she was a union pipe fitter.

Language is so fluid, people who get too hung up on syntax and not the substance really annoy me.

When I was in the military, one of the smartest people I knew was from the bayou of Louisiana. To me, a yank, he sounded like a complete idiot, and in fact I often couldn't understand him when we first met. Once I was able to look past his mode of speech, and actually listen to him, I realised what an ignorant fuck I was being.

This makes my head hurt and I love it.

Worst lingua franca evurr

Along the same vein as "the chaos"

https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

Uhh! A new variant of "The Chaos".

I'll take the English reformation any time now.

Blame the french and people using endonym loan words.

You got me there. Im a very systemic person, and pronunciation is higly asystemic, even in the English language.

geoduck

Hey, at least it is a nice, short word. In German, it is an "Elephantenrüsselmuschel" (elephant trunk clam). At least there is absolutely no question how it is pronounced, so that's that.

Huh… don’t think I’ve ever seen segue written down. I’d be writing Segway if I had to.

I was at the store with my partner and I was like

“What’s… kwee-know-ah?”

I've heard segue being spoken in so many different ways that I have no fucking clue which is the correct. Se-geh, segway, se-goo-ee

That word's spelling is a practical joke and you can't convince me otherwise.

I tend to read it as Sergey without the "r".

Were you pronouncing it b-anal?

Oh yeah, epitome for me too. It was the epi-tome.

So apparently for the latter you can just claim to be using the american pronunciation https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/penchant

That's because it's not the correct spelling. It should be "façade" but English keyboards lack the correct glyph. This doesn't tell you how to pronounce it but it at least gives you a hint that you can't use English rules and that you should investigate it further

Hi per Bol e (e as in how it sounds in see)

Ai jenyuinely wish inglish woz laik thiz

Esoteric for me. I still have trouble with that word.

I want it to be eh-sot-uh-rik for some reason.

The epicenter of tomes

Using a Latin alphabet. Using Germanic pronunciation. Borrowing words from Spanish. Stealing words from French. Changing accent to avoid sounding Gaelic.

I have always loved the analogy that English isn't a language, it's three bilingual children stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat and arguing about bologna.

Well, German has almost as many vowels as English and we're doing just fine I think. On the other hand, French orthography is similarly fucked up although it's a direct descendent of Latin and they don't even have any weird sounds they can't write concisely. So I think its just a matter of trying.

Some of the accents are a little off since they would need to go in front of the consonants instead of the vowels and "dummies" isn't spelled correctly but other than that I had a chuckle :D (not mesnt to be rude - sorry if it comes off this way)

jɛs

A decent performer will likely verify words they're unfamiliar with. If it's being read by the book's author it's anybody's guess.

I'm looking at YOU Gibson

Pen wings.

My biggest gripe with spanish is J having the "ha" sound. Juan is spelled "Hoo-an", Jesus is "Heh-zus", etc. If you can get over that, the rest is mostly phonetically sound, like portuguese

Same. I think the official pronunciation was just JK trolling.

Nah, Google would be like, "Sorry, I don't understand. But I did find something else on the web. Did you mean "Cacodaemoniacal defined?"

Edit: Whoops, accidentally pasted in that word I couldn't remember how to spell.

I was teasing my significant other about her epi-tome but then she caught me with indictment so we're back on equal footing.

I loved my dad, but he was always a professor, so proper English was a priority. Honestly, that particular aspect of my upbringing is not one of the upsetting or traumatic parts.

Interestingly though, I recently learned that he drilled something that was essentially incorrect into my head. He grew up in the UK and, when he was growing up, it was proper to write "an historic." Here in the US and now usually in the UK, it is "a historic." I've been using "an historic" for decades.

If you want to talk about the shitty thing about having an English professor for a father, it's when you show him a piece of creative writing and he responds by telling you about all the mistakes you've made rather than what he thinks of it. Again, I loved the guy, but he was always a professor.

On the other hand, he ended up becoming a film historian and growing up with a film historian for a father is pretty amazing.

(Thanks on the health front, we're working on it.)

Epitome is mine.

I don't see what's so humorous about that

Omg I love hummus

Did you pronounce it such that it would pair nicely with postpita and postolives?

You have to double tap to play it.

Ancient Greek is the "kh" pronunciation. Same root as Chiron.

That one was deliberate actually - some pompous reformer (possibly Dr Johnson or a follower) decided we needed certain spellings to be more like Dutch. That's where the H came from in 'ghost' as well, used to be 'gost' like in 'most hosts'

Hey thanks! I moved back to Montreal after a few years. I learned a few things while I was there lol.