#pronunciation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pronunciation, aggregated by home.social.
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Pronouncing the “Sukkot” greeting correctly and so much more with my PSP System!
Speaking Hebrew with the proper syllable emphasis is a must. Come learn more about how I help you master it.
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New clear pronunciation:
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Judging from the words of various Radio 4 announcers and newsreaders today, the following are all on loan from France to the UK:
• the Bayeux tapestry
• the Bayeau tapestry
• the Bayou tapestryFor me, this grates horribly. I find it painful and a bit embarrassing. Especially since discovering that the BBC Pronunciation Unit apparently still exists—it suggests they don't even know that the #pronunciation might need checking.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 📜🔍 Egyptologist Ilona Regulski breaks down how to read Egyptian #hieroglyphs.
The system uses #pictures that represent concrete objects, consonant #sounds, and phonetic #guides that clarify meaning. Viewers can learn to identify #reading direction based on the orientation of #animal signs, along with why ancient #pronunciation remains an open question.
👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/why-reading-egyptian-hieroglyphics-is-easier-than-you-think.html
#egypt #history #archaeology #language #writing #symbols #ancientegypt #literacy #education #classroom #culture #linguistics #learning
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Formidable!
How would you pronounce that?
PEEP-oh-tronh?
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14 weird English words that sound made up, but aren’t
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#laptyekanda #irony #satire #pronunciation #orcs #Ukraine
З Україною йде війна, українці зайняті їхнім знищенням на своїй землі (і не тільки) і нікому виправляти їхній давньоболгарський суржик, їхню вимову. Через що оці "всьо сполихнуло" — похідне від "вспьіхнуло" і "вскольіхнуло". Ні мови, ні історії, ні мізків — орки (обережно — лайка) -
#pronunciation : the way in which a word is pronounced
- French: prononciation
- German: die Aussprache
- Italian: pronuncia
- Portuguese: pronúncia
- Spanish: pronunciación
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Eight British And Irish Accent Maps | Map Of British English Dialects
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https://starkeycomics.com/2024/05/10/eight-british-and-irish-accent-maps/ <-- shared technical article
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https://starkeycomics.com/2023/11/07/map-of-british-english-dialects/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-11642588 <-- shared media article
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H/T @Milan Janosov
[as a kiwi, and after seeing the ‘scone’ pronunciation in particular, I do wonder how this might translate down to the antipodes; as a barman working in London in my (much) younger days – because we all do! 😉 – hearing the huge variety of accents from a relatively small country – but with a rich history of course – was glorious, still is to me! I am also curious how people trying to ‘not to be common’ & hence trying pretentiously to emulate the Received Pronunciation (RP) / BBC English – and failing - plays into this… Now say the letter “H” out loud, if you said “aitch" then that is you 😉 :* 😊 )
“Eight maps to show how the differences in how vowels are pronounced in Britain and Ireland… These are just some of the many, many regional differences in the complex and varied accents and dialects of these [British Isles]…”
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“… The diversity of English dialects in the United Kingdom is enormous.
It’s common for people from either side of a river, mountain, or even town to speak noticeably different ways, with particular features that immediately mark someone out as being from a specific area, to those who have an ear for it.
This is pretty normal in any large region that has been speaking a language continually for 1600 years. You will find the same thing in Germany, Norway, France, and countless other countries. Languages evolve over time, and physical distance between regions means that new features often spread slowly, leading to dialectal differences. Sometimes these differences are small, and only easily recognised by people from the relevant region. Other times there are very clear distinctions, with neighbouring dialects sounding almost like different languages to those unaccustomed to them...”
#map #mapping #spatial #Rhoticity #poorpour #horsehoarse #bathtrap #footstrut #goosefoot #fullfool #greatscone #UK #Britain #Ireland #pronunciation #linguistics #regional #variations #differences #vowels #language #English #England #accents #Northern #dialects
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A quotation from Anthony Burgess
Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallizes lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) English novelist
A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages … Especially English, ch. 21 “Sounds from the Past” (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/burgess-anthony/7114…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #burgess #anthonyburgess #artifact #evolution #language #linguistics #orthography #passageoftime #pronunciation #spelling #timelag
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27 English words people have a hard time enunciating properly, even native speakers
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Cummer gain? English dialects and pronunciations.
https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/ cummer-gain-2/
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#Reading a short story. The first sentence contains the word 'paradisiacal'. A lovely word which I've never come across before. The meaning is clear, but how do you pronounce it? Had to stop reading immediately and check three dictionaries before I was satisfied. The consensus seems to be ˌpærədɪˈsaɪəkəl (PA-ra-diss-SIGH-ick'l), although the s could be pronounced as a z according to one dictionary.
And now I've posted about it, and have still only read one sentence of the story. Why am I such a slow reader, I wonder? 🤔
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I look at patterns in LLM output. The tell is more than simple orthographic tics.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/07/ai-language-patterns/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #language #llms #ai #artificialintelligence #patterns #comprehension #writing #training #history #english #learning #blog #video #critique #commentary #spelling #pronunciation #content
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Hello… #fedihelp for #French #pronunciation needed, plz!
There is a legendary experimental French band. Written like this:
Geins't Naït
See i.e. here:
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/173587-Geinst-Na%C3%AFt
I may pronounce them in English, but I guess, that's more wrong than right.
How would you pronounce them in French, provided you are a native French speaker?
I need it for my radio show! Short audio examples welcome.
Thank you + Merci!
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It's hard to take an "expert" on Buddha and Buddhism seriously if they don't even pronounce those words right: 🫤
It's "bud'dha"; not "būḍa" or "booda".
I understand if you can't aspirate the "dh" sound but, please stop with the "boo". 😠
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I’m listening to this podcaster who pronounces the word “vulnerable” without pronouncing the first “l”, i.e. “vunerable”. It makes me wince.
Then I started to wonder if this is the accepted pronunciation in certain English dialects.
How do you say it?
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I have a question specifically for people from the British Isles. What do you think about the final "t" in the word "restaurant" being silent or audible?
A — must be silent; that's just the way it's pronounced correctly
B — silent is posh, audible is normal
C — silent is British, audible is non-British (North American, for example)
D — something else (please add comment to elaborate)Boosts appreciated!
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The noxious habit of mispronouncing “a” is even creeping into folk music. On TG4 a band called the Burnett Sisters were singing It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie but singing it as “to tell eh lie”. Here’s how it is correctly pronounced
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mye4fFrazE
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Related: "wipraja" is a man born to a wipra. That word is sometimes used as a name, often spelled "Wipraj" because English.
It grinds my gears when people pronounce that name "Wip Raj" meaning the king of wips, which is Brahma, the ancestor of all wise men; thereby reversing the role meant by the name wipraja. 😒
(IPL commentators take note. #iykyk)
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I can scarcely bear to watch RTÉ News any more because of the self-important way the presenter, and increasingly even the reporters, say “ai” for “a” - “Ai new project proposed by thee Government will bring ai radical change…”. It’s so Mrs Bucket
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#Japanese #LanguageLearning #pronunciation #voice #learningJapanese
So I started taking speaking lessons for Japanese. A teacher is helping me with my voice, pronunciation and intonation.
It turns out that I've been speaking with "an english like voice" the whole time. I use my voice box too much, and I should have been using my breath more.
Normal speech in Japanese is something between speaking (all voice) and a whisper (all breath).
On top of that, my tongue was in the wrong position the whole time. It should have been further to the back, almost touching the back of my throat.
When I put it in the right place and speak, the teacher says I sound a lot better but it feels super unnatural to do. I'm just not used to speaking from that position.
I think I need to just get used to it, almost closing the throat with the tongue means the air vibrates more in the mouth and that compensates for the voice box doing less work.
Next goals are:
- Getting used to speaking from the right position
- Learning to hear the difference in my speech
- Learning to hear it in other speech (there's like a vibratey buzzy quality in english that is largely absent in Japanese)
