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I pronounce the ‘u’ in ‘pronunciation’ like in ‘putting’ but the ‘ou’ in ‘pronounce’ like in ‘wound’.
Transcript
[The word "Tuesday", with each letter labeled by a box with an arrow:]
T: As in buffet
u: As in minute
e: As in record
s: As in use
d: As in moped
a: As in bass
y: As in gyro
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Pet peeve: Ambiguous pronunciation guides
“My name is Perry, not Terry, with a ‘P’ as in ‘Pterodactyl’.”
Pterry
“Thompson, with a ‘P’, as in psychology”
Yeah… silent Ps are weird 😅
Depends on your aim.
Whatever do you mean, puh-saldorn?
LOL I forgot where that’s from!