#pronounciation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pronounciation, aggregated by home.social.
-
Hey #linguist types...
I don't know exactly how to explain this, but is there a thing where the (I don't know what it is called} the sound at the end of some consonants, especially the letter "T" is being softened or is disappearing?
For example, I hear people (somewhat more frequently in the UK, but also in the US) pronouncing a word like "cotton" more like "caugh-en." Maybe I haven't explained myself clearly, but if you have an idea and a better way to describe this and whether it is a real, new thing, I would appreciate hearing!
-
Went to ship a package the other day and the guy in the Post Office insisted on trying to pronounce my name. He did pretty great, considering the surprising twists I've heard. Said he takes pride in guessing people's pronounciations, told him he surprised me with his near-perfect guess.
#extra #consonants #mispronounce #pronounciation #surname #given #name #chosen #spelling #uncle #namesake #junior #third #fourth #inherit #moniker #Russian #grandparents #USA #immigrants #power the #UnitedStates -
The Evolution of Classical Chinese Characters and their Pronunciation in Mandarin.
古漢字字形演變及其官話讀音。
https://youtu.be/EbxohNCoJHM?si=M4jpuPvIpvtJ03kO
Having noticed someone inquiring about classical Chinese bronze inscription characters on Facebook, I therefore recorded a video to illustrate them.
適見Facebook有客詢商周金文，吾遂錄像以闡之。#chinese #character #characters #classical #ancient #mandarin #pronounce #pronounciation #script #evolution #illustration #illustrate #explain #describing #clarify #elucidate #中文 #漢語 #漢字 #古漢字 #金文 #字形 #演變 #font #fonts
-
Of course, everyone knows that the word "Ghoti" is actually pronounced /fɪʃ/ just like "Fish"...
You don't? Please have a look at its dedicated Wikipedia page: -
Carrie, Spencer, Doug and the coffee-smalltalk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgSEzCjN2dg
than just an EAR, to bear, beard, fear, pear, hear, heard, heart
mind how to lipread those if hearing be rather/just optional?
#pronounciation #words #english #learning #easy #tutor #tutoring #teacher #teaching #language #languages #nouns #school #student #students #uni #university #notes #funny #comedy #writing #sounds #hard #remember #dontforget #hearing #deaf #experiment
-
"Why is The Great Vowel Shift also called the Great Vowel Movement?"
"Oh, that's because English took a huge dump on its own pronunciation."
#GreatVowelShift #GreatVowelMovement #EnglishLanguage #dump #pronounciation #BowelMovement
-
I usually don't have a strong opinion about the difference between #AmericanEnglish and #BritishEnglish. Frankly, I just use them interchangeably.
Saying zed when you mean z is so much better than saying see for both z and c. The previous sentence also sounds better when you read it as zed:
Saying zed when you mean see is so much better than saying see for both see and see.