What the hell! Let's all just go crazy!

LiNGuIsTiC pResCrIPtiViSm

Go ahead and pronounce the a in freak, nothing matters anymore

In Vermont we also pronounce the L however the N is dropped.

Yep. It is indeed. Same with the K in knight, which was added for no fucking reason. Sweden also has an island called Öland which means island land.

I think what you said is slightly wrong. Island and isle are both English words that seem to have no ethymological connection. However close semantic relation of "isle" might have cause the introduction of the "s" at some point. Isle itself probably comes from latin "insula". The French still have only one word "Île". Germans have "Eiland" and "Insel".

island [OE] Despite their similarity, island has no etymological connection with isle (their resemblance is due to a 16th-century change in the spelling of island under the influence of its semantic neighbour isle). Island comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic *aujō, which denoted 'land associated with water,' and was distantly related to Latin aqua 'water'. This passed into Old English as īeg 'island,' which was subsequently compounded with land to form īegland 'island'. By the late Middle English period this had developed to iland, the form which was turned into island. (A diminutive form of Old English īeg, incidentally, has given us eyot 'small island in a river' [OE].)

Isle [13] itself comes via Old French ile from Latin insula (the s is a 15th-century reintroduction from Latin). Other contributions made by insula to English include insular [17], insulate [16], insulin, isolate [via Italian) [18], and peninsula [16].

Can the UN declare that every school needs to replace Island with Iland?

Now that is the real question.

etymologically the word is made up of "i" and "land", the "s" was added by some idiot in the 15th century. "i" is cognate with "ö" in swedish which simply means "island", so just pull a power move and drop all the other letters completely.

I mean the L. Like in salmon.

In UK/Australia/NZ we pronounce it as written, with the l.

I am today years old learning that it was spelled with an L and not just a D.

Are you sure that place have.. SOBER!

In New England I've only ever heard it without the L (like "sodder").

I'm on the west coast, Northern California. Huh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra7Fa6kE718

You say that, but there's the anachronistic nautical slang "soger" for an inept or lazy sailor. It came from the soldiers assigned to British navy ships, who did not participate in the sailing of the vessel.

I think this is a misunderstanding. The poster you're replying to is talking about solder, not soldier (which you wrote, assuming that's the word you meant). Solder, as in a soldering iron, is pronounced Saw-dur in the US. Ya dingus 😉

Not really, it’s the same as caulk.

Couldn’t even wait longer than an hour to complain about downvotes.

Yeah. Dude has to earn a living somehow.

WORSCHESTERSOSSE

I'm surprised anyone knew.

Samon, really?

Geuss I ain't ever gonna pronounce this damn language correctly . You can't blame this on French tho because in that language it's saumon pronounced somon. They didn't drop a consonant in the middle of the word.

Sallemonne /s

Edit: Looked it up, the French word is actually "saumon". The L in the English word probably isn't from French.

I think it's optional in "salmonella". I was a biology student in college and heard both pronunciations all the time.

you do? i always said it without the l

But it's systematic. In English, it's systemless, complete wild west out there smh

Are those like ñ and ll in Spanish, or different?

Ghoti (fish) is referring to an old Tom Scott video about the inconsistencies of the English language, right?

It has facial hair??

Ich sehe was du tatest hier

Laowguh-hhhh

I don't know but id happily consume several kilograms of both

I'd be worried if so.

From which country?

I mean hey, it's Friday. Why not?

Probably closer to Brazil

Erb (with a long e)

We used to have a letter for 'th' (thorn (Þ, þ)), but it was replaced by 'th'. There are people trying to bring back, but I wonder if they just like typing þorn (thorn)

Teehee 🤭

Um, Google search for: salmon definition gave the following result for pronunciation: /ˈsamən/ And the voice sounds like "samon".

Just spit balling, but maybe the program that does the transcription doesn't just use the image, but instead scans the image, finds the Twitter account shown, and checks the tweet text in the image against the matching actual tweet.

And since it's accessing the actual tweet, maybe that Walmart text is like a profile tag line or something that's attached to the user?

Like shoulder.

Maybe English needs an accent mark for silence, like the Turkish ğ

"Talk" like in "calc" but the first letter is a "t". "Should" as in "shoulder", just without the "er". And so on...

Exackly! I reconize your problem. Now I'm off to go buy some jewluhry.

Yes, people often/usually drop the g in quick/casual speech, but most regions I have heard do pronounce it when speaking slower or more formally.

In America a lot of people say "reckonize." In fact, I never hear it pronounced as if there is an actual "g" in the word anymore. I think they're just imitating habits of others but I hope they know that, there really is a "g" in the word (if it comes to having to spell it).

Thus spake Zarathrustra. (if I spelled that wrong -well, I'm an American). I'd rather not hear any voices out of the void - this whole thing makes me shiver, recalling my lifelong fear of the black void of space and the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey." (Shudders).

According to my English teacher who grew up in California no.

Palm is apparently not supposed to rhyme with calm

Ask the Brits

British pronounce it, "Alum-inium." With an extra I in it. I think because it cheeses off the rest of us.

The way british people say is "Al-yoo-min-ee-um" Instead of the correct way "ah-loo-min-um"