I pronounce the 'u' in 'pronunciation' like in 'putting' but the 'ou' in 'pronounce' like in 'wound'.
::: spoiler Transcript [The word "Tuesday", with each letter labeled by a box with an arrow:] T: As in buffet u: As in minute e: As in record s: As in use d: As in moped a: As in bass y: As in gyro
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Pet peeve: Ambiguous pronunciation guides
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24 Comments
funnystuff97@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 2y
"My name is Perry, not Terry, with a 'P' as in 'Pterodactyl'."
dot20@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Pterry
tuesday@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 2y
"Thompson, with a 'P', as in psychology"
Psaldorn@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Yeah.. silent Ps are weird 😅
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Depends on your aim.
funnystuff97@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Whatever do you mean, puh-saldorn?
Ryan213@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
LOL I forgot where that's from!
positiveWHAT@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
The english language is ... missing some litterary updates.
A is pronounced [ei]. E is [ii] and I is [ai]. What's up with that.
dot20@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
IIUC the problem is that they updated the pronunciation without updating the spelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net · 10 pts · 2y
I started learning Japanese recently. It's made me realizehow sloppy English is with vowel sounds.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
My dad always did this with GHOTI = FISH
GH as in rouGH
O as in wOmen
TI as in raTIon.
Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
There used to be a band called Ghoti Hook based on the same thing.
Intralexical@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Wikipedia says they're back together, and have shows coming up.
tuesday@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 2y
oh hey it me
Cabrio@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
EYuesday?
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2y
I didnt know gyro could be pronunced in multiple ways
Skua@kbin.social · 14 pts · 2y
There's gyro as in gyroscope, where the Y vowel sound is like the word "eye", and there's gyro as in the Greek sandwich where the Y vowel is more like the vowel sound in "sea". The latter is often seen only as "gyros" because that's what the actual Greek word is, but because that seems like a plural in English the S is sometimes dropped.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
Ohh gyros as in the food lol
stringbeantheory@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
the greek food gyro is kinda pronounced "yee-ro"
Masimatutu@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
palordrolap@kbin.social · 10 pts · 2y
all my troubles seemed so far away?
tuesday@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y
or /ɪɛztɛɪaɪ/ depending on whether you treat the final phoneme of moped as /t/ or /d/ -> [t]
Masimatutu@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Masimatutu@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
JokeDeity@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
If I'm feeling less lazy and exhausted later I might just have to take voice clips and try to create this variation on pronouncing "Tuesday".
brygphilomena@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I made an antiphonetic alphabet poster a few years ago to hang at my desk.
It has things like G as in Gnu. Y as in You.
Masimatutu@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
Cabrio@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
As is the Y in U.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y