I think I need to call ICE and turn myself in. I’m from somewhere like Barbados, New Zealand, Uruguay or Italy…I’ve been living in the US for sooooo long that my English is practically perfect. Please deport me. My home country misses my economic contributions.
Been living in the US for so long that I pronounce buoy like a complete psychopath.
BooEee
In contrast with what?
In British English it sounds the same as “boy”
*proper English, not simplified.
Gotta add some pointless silent characters to everyone 👌
Keeps the foreigns confused
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Hmm, interesting. I don’t think I’ve heard that before.
It’s literally how you (as in Americans) pronounce it when you say buoyant or buoyancy, but for some reason you go wild when pronouncing buoy.
If I had to guess it’s due to the fact that a word pronounced like boy already exists. Never really thought about it before though.
I’m not sure if it was the pronunciation in all of the UK or just in parts of it, but historically there was also a “bwoy” pronunciation. I could imagine the American “boo-ee” descending from that
It’s regional in the US. Boo-ee is a western states thing.
I have never heard a pronunciation other than “boo-ee” and I’m from Connecticut
i’ve heard it from pennsylvanians
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Not sure. BooAy, maybe…
It seems like a real waste to put all those vowels in words just to ignore them.
Well you can fuck off to the back of the queue, bouy
We took them from the Welsh, gotta find somewhere to stick them.
Sounds like the brain damage has set in. Run child, save yourself!!