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Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world sho @ani.social 2w ago

Inn english their our know rules,

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I like what you did there, and I get it, but, I don't hear "are" when I see our, I hear "hour".

Now I'm just curious which is more common.
- We would definitely pronounce our as “are” in some cases., usually when referring to a person. “Our kid” or “Our Jack” would have been pronounced “are”.
  
  Must be a regional thing because for me “our” always sounds like “hour” no matter what
You'll like this poem:

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

The start of it:

Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos (1922)

Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
Nguyen ewe egg noire Gramm her.
- Not gon lie, but i have no idea what this reads. I can maybe make sense of the "Gramm her" part reading as "Grammar" but not much beyond that 😅
  
  Nguyen (a Korean name that is common in America pronounced like "when")
  
  Ewe (female sheep, pronounced like "you")
  
  egg (egg only because it sounds a little lile "ig-" )
  
  noire (french for the color black, sometimes used in English, pronounced like "-nore")
  
  Egg-noire (ignore)
  
  Gramm her (grammar)
  
  So with our sentences together it would be: "In English there are no rules, when you ignore grammar."

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