Very rich criticism coming from English speakers English pronunciation is just nonsense
Hey, âqueueâ only has 2 vowels that arenât pronouncedâŚtwice each.
(From the French, so really, we could do this dance all day.)
A particularly egregious one is Worcestershire. Even native English speakers canât agree on how itâs pronounced, and the laziest pronunciation is Wooster. So many vowels and consonants that are dropped!
Cholmondeley is another great one, pronounced CHUM-ly.
Whenever I see a difficult name/place name in England, I say, âIt must be pronounced âChumly.ââ
Ooh! Ooh! And Featherstonehaugh is another great one.
I have been told by the son of a Quebecois speaker that âoiseauxâ in his motherâs dialect is pronounced âweezohâ rather than âwahzohâ
My dad was from Surrey and pronounced it âwoosterâ.
See also; âRalph Fiennesâ
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
What did the Normans ever do for us?
One more cross-post, as it fits here, tooâŚ
Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000713
No shit
I suspect that even though this was an Australian study, their models simply werenât able to pick up on the creative language that is Aussie swearing
Came here to post this! and to say @ProfOddfellow
PS: When TF do you sleep, Mindy-San?
{Iâm one to talk: Iâm about to go to bed now }
Boatswain being pronounced âbosunâ bothers me more than it probably should.
What about the f in lieutenant?
Itâs even worse how they say forecastle.