@wason to [email protected] • 10 months agoNever change Lemmyimagemessage-square71arrow-up1976arrow-down119file-text
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minus-square@samus12345linkEnglish19•edit-210 months ago“Every single other letter is one syllable, can we just pronounce this one ‘wuh’”? “No, it must have THREE!”
minus-square@samus12345linkEnglish17•edit-210 months agoGermans: “Ridiculous! We will pronounce it like ‘vay’”. “Well, that’s a lot…” “…AND ‘Y’ WILL BE ‘OOPSILON’”! ಠ_ಠ
minus-square@samus12345linkEnglish1•10 months agoThey do, but it’s silly when the vast majority of letters are pronounced with one syllable.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-210 months agoI call it zed or zee both have one syllable ri8?
“Every single other letter is one syllable, can we just pronounce this one ‘wuh’”?
“No, it must have THREE!”
English is indeed a funny language.
Germans: “Ridiculous! We will pronounce it like ‘vay’”.
“Well, that’s a lot…”
“…AND ‘Y’ WILL BE ‘OOPSILON’”!
ಠ_ಠ
TIL!
Lots of languages do upsilon, it comes from greek
They do, but it’s silly when the vast majority of letters are pronounced with one syllable.
Noooo, you forgot “and z” has two /s
I call it zed or zee both have one syllable ri8?