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Something came up at work today and this is an excellent place to learn something new.
How do you pronounce the word "buoy"?
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Something came up at work today and this is an excellent place to learn something new.
How do you pronounce the word "buoy"?
#Boost4Reach@miffyhelen buhOI sort of. Mostly sounding like boy but I can't ignore the u
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Something came up at work today and this is an excellent place to learn something new.
How do you pronounce the word "buoy"?
#Boost4ReachThis 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.)
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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.)
@miffyhelen bwahahaha I never thought about that! See also herbaceous, perhaps?
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@miffyhelen bwahahaha I never thought about that! See also herbaceous, perhaps?
@FourT4 and for my Italian friends, one of them had an almost religious experience to hear how English people pronounce "Tomb Raider".
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@FourT4 and for my Italian friends, one of them had an almost religious experience to hear how English people pronounce "Tomb Raider".
@miffyhelen I am super curious to hear how an Italian attempts to pronounce this.
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@miffyhelen I am super curious to hear how an Italian attempts to pronounce this.
@FourT4 if you say these in the traditional British English way, my friend said it like this:
Tom-bah
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Something came up at work today and this is an excellent place to learn something new.
How do you pronounce the word "buoy"?
#Boost4Reach@miffyhelen I'm not a native English speaker so I pronounce it boo-oh-ee, stress on the oh
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@FourT4 if you say these in the traditional British English way, my friend said it like this:
Tom-bah
R-eye-dareItalian 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.
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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.
@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
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@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
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@losttourist @oblomov @miffyhelen @FourT4 Relevant as ever:
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@losttourist @oblomov @miffyhelen @FourT4 Relevant as ever:
@GlasWolf @losttourist @oblomov @miffyhelen @FourT4 Here's one I love:
What If English Were Phonetically consistent
https://youtube.com/watch?v=A8zWWp0akUU
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