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Very rich criticism coming from English speakers :stuck_out_tongue: English pronunciation is just nonsense

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Hey, “queue” only has 2 vowels that aren’t pronounced…twice each.

(From the French, so really, we could do this dance all day.)

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A particularly egregious one is Worcestershire. Even native English speakers can’t agree on how it’s pronounced, and the laziest pronunciation is Wooster. So many vowels and consonants that are dropped!

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Cholmondeley is another great one, pronounced CHUM-ly.

Whenever I see a difficult name/place name in England, I say, “It must be pronounced ‘Chumly.’”

Ooh! Ooh! And Featherstonehaugh is another great one.

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I have been told by the son of a Quebecois speaker that “oiseaux” in his mother’s dialect is pronounced “weezoh” rather than “wahzoh”

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My dad was from Surrey and pronounced it “wooster”.

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See also; “Ralph Fiennes”

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Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes

What did the Normans ever do for us?

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One more cross-post, as it fits here, too…

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Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000713

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No shit

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I suspect that even though this was an Australian study, their models simply weren’t able to pick up on the creative language that is Aussie swearing

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Swearing Models may need recalibration

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Came here to post this! and to say @ProfOddfellow tophat-biggrin tophat-cool tophat-yes

PS: When TF do you sleep, Mindy-San? tophat-biggrin tophat-biggrin tophat-biggrin

{I’m one to talk: I’m about to go to bed now tophat-biggrin}

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Boatswain being pronounced “bosun” bothers me more than it probably should.

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What about the f in lieutenant?

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It’s even worse how they say forecastle.

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