• @[email protected]
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    Got called out once for pronouncing epitome as Epi-tome.

    That one stung more than Camus as Cah-mus instead of Cah-moo. At least thats just the French fucking with us.

    • niftyOP
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      338 months ago

      It can happen with common words too! Like I didn’t know I was pronouncing Thai food wrong till that John Oliver episode

      • @bus_factor
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        208 months ago

        How were you pronouncing it?

        • niftyOP
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          468 months ago

          Thigh food

            • niftyOP
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              128 months ago

              Aw shucks

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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            128 months ago

            You never heard anyone say Thailand? Or you just never made the connection?

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              I think it’s the former, I also think I maybe imagined the “Th” when someone else said it. I also may have been surrounded by others who mispronounced both.

              So in short I blame society /s

              • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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                So in short I blame society /s

                Ha! Typical millennial

                Edit: since it’s not always clear on the internet, I too am being sarcastic.

          • @z00s
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            18 months ago

            That’s how I refer to… never mind

    • @[email protected]
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      8 months ago

      Uh, thanks for the heads up. I’ve been pronouncing epitome both correctly and incorrectly my entire adult life because for some reason I thought they were two different words.

    • FreshLight
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      158 months ago

      If anyone’s wondering and since it’s not clarified here…

      Epitome is pronounced like this: ||UK|US| |phonetic|/ɪˈpɪt.ə.mi/|/ɪˈpɪt̬.ə.mi/| |non-phonetic|epittomee|epiddomee|

      • VaultBoyNewVegas
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        148 months ago

        I’ve been an avid reader since I was 6/7 and I hate reading dictionary listings with phonetic spellings as ironically they only make it harder for me to know how to pronounce a word. I’m also a native speaker.

      • @[email protected]
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        98 months ago

        epiddomee

        I know Americans pronounce Ts as Ds, but reading it explicitly written down is like being poked in the eye

        • robotica
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          48 months ago

          Wait till you find out that they pronounce Ds as semi-trilled Rs!

            • robotica
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              28 months ago

              They’re just like trilled Rs, but have only one trill, hence semi-trilled.

        • @aidan
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          28 months ago

          I’ll pronounce a T when you pronounce an R

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              38 months ago

              Most English people have a non-rhotic accent, meaning not pronouncing the r after vowels so words like “better” become “betta”.

              • @[email protected]
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                28 months ago

                This one seems like it’s very accent-dependent. A cockney geezer will definitely say “be’aah”, but a geordie would say "be’eh and someone from the west country would say “betterrrr”. I think the American pronunciation makes the R sound a lot longer (you can tell I don’t know all the property linguistics words!) so anything shorter probably sounds weird to you.

                • @aidan
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                  18 months ago

                  I’m sure it’s definitely regional, just like accents in the US. But generally in England at least it’s non-rhotic. I know Scotland is different, maybe Wales too

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        It’s more like “cook-ooh”, the two syllables aren’t the same sound. It’s basically just the sound that actual cuckoos make.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        It’s like a hippopotamoo, but somewhat more existential and obsessed with arcana like boulders and mountains for exercise to discover happiness in life.

    • @[email protected]
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      8 months ago

      Para-dig-em checking in. The bulb that lit up when I connected the sound with the word was pretty bright, but made me feel awfully dim. It changed my whole paradigm.