@wason to [email protected] • 1 year agoNever change Lemmyimagemessage-square71arrow-up1977arrow-down119file-text
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minus-square@samus12345linkEnglish17•edit-21 year agoGermans: “Ridiculous! We will pronounce it like ‘vay’”. “Well, that’s a lot…” “…AND ‘Y’ WILL BE ‘OOPSILON’”! ಠ_ಠ
minus-square@samus12345linkEnglish1•1 year agoThey do, but it’s silly when the vast majority of letters are pronounced with one syllable.
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.