Something came up at work today and this is an excellent place to learn something new.

[miffyhelen@beige.party]

Something came up at work today and this is an excellent place to learn something new.

How do you pronounce the word "buoy"?
#Boost4Reach

[davey_cakes@mastodon.ie]

@miffyhelen buhOI sort of. Mostly sounding like boy but I can't ignore the u

[miffyhelen@beige.party]

This has been eye-opening. I might need to follow up with a second poll on how people pronounce "buoyant" and "buoyancy".

Who'd have thought that people on the internet could be so wrong? That's so unusual. (End of sarcasm.)

[fourt4@mastodonapp.uk]

@miffyhelen bwahahaha I never thought about that! See also herbaceous, perhaps?

[miffyhelen@beige.party]

@FourT4 and for my Italian friends, one of them had an almost religious experience to hear how English people pronounce "Tomb Raider".

[fourt4@mastodonapp.uk]

@miffyhelen I am super curious to hear how an Italian attempts to pronounce this.

[miffyhelen@beige.party]

@FourT4 if you say these in the traditional British English way, my friend said it like this:
Tom-bah
R-eye-dare

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@miffyhelen I'm not a native English speaker so I pronounce it boo-oh-ee, stress on the oh

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@miffyhelen @FourT4

Italian here, can confirm although I wouldn't have put the ah at the end of the Tomb. And since the two words are basically pronounced like a single one, it sounds more like

Tom-bra-ee-dare

I *did* know that raider was pronounced more like ray-dah, so I used to say tom-bray-dah, and I was quite shocked to find out that Tomb is pronounced toom.

WTF English.

[losttourist@social.chatty.monster]

@oblomov @miffyhelen @FourT4 "WTF English" should really be the go-to expression for anyone learning this language, either as a second language or as a native speaker