Zerlyna to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 3 months agoThe word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.message-square40arrow-up1209arrow-down117
arrow-up1192arrow-down1message-squareThe word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.Zerlyna to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square40
minus-squareZerlynaOPlinkEnglish1•edit-23 months agoPhonetically means the way it sounds which would be “fonetik”
minus-square@aliceblossomlink2•3 months agoThis is not correct. English is simply not phonetic and therefore it’s impossible to spell any English word phonetically.
minus-squarelivuslinkfedilink2•edit-23 months agoThat’s transposing it how we sound to them, though! If the above were pronounced in a baseline kiwi accent the U would just get deeper. The vowel shift goes the other way if I’m to recreate their pronunciation using my own accent: Fehr ned ik (US) Foe net eck (UK)
Phonetically means the way it sounds which would be “fonetik”
So pronounced phone-tick?
Three syllables, so it would be fo-ne-tik.
This is not correct. English is simply not phonetic and therefore it’s impossible to spell any English word phonetically.
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funneddic (US)
funnettic (UK)
That’s transposing it how we sound to them, though!
If the above were pronounced in a baseline kiwi accent the U would just get deeper. The vowel shift goes the other way if I’m to recreate their pronunciation using my own accent:
Fehr ned ik (US)
Foe net eck (UK)