Flying Squid to Dad JokesEnglish • 11 months agoThe most dangerous kind of canoes...imagemessage-square21arrow-up1867arrow-down14
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•11 months agoBut which one will we be mispronouncing? Canoes = kay-noes? Volcanoes = vahl cuh noos?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•edit-211 months agoTIL canoes isn’t pronounced kay-noes like volcanoes… English why do you keep bamboozling me 😩
minus-square@dustyDatalinkEnglish14•edit-211 months agoBecause English isn’t a language, it’s a goon in a trench-coat that lures other languages into dark alleys and beats them down to steal spare grammar. Canoe comes from Caribbean indigenous words through Spanish and Volcano comes from ancient Latin and Roman religion.
But which one will we be mispronouncing?
Canoes = kay-noes?
Volcanoes = vahl cuh noos?
TIL canoes isn’t pronounced kay-noes like volcanoes… English why do you keep bamboozling me 😩
Because English isn’t a language, it’s a goon in a trench-coat that lures other languages into dark alleys and beats them down to steal spare grammar.
Canoe comes from Caribbean indigenous words through Spanish and Volcano comes from ancient Latin and Roman religion.