Fret not! Hang on to "draut" in your mind with the rest of us early readers. And when you need to say draft, just spell it draft. Meanwhile in the privacy of your own head, you can think, "I'm hot, so I'll take a long refreshing draught of this draft beer whilst I stand in the cool draught from the door. " We'll never tell.
Even worse: dialects of English that use draught don't use it for every sense of the word. A breeze getting into a room is a draught, but your first effort at writing something is still a draft
Draught beer (at least in the UK). The board game chequers/checkers uses draughts too. I think the military calling people up would be a draft, but it would more commonly be referred to as conscription
Interesting, I never had an issue with those but the one that got my growing up was awry. I still want to read it as "aw-ree" like "awful" despite knowing it's actually "ah-rye". I also knew the latter as a spoken word but I guess I didn't question how it was spelled for a long time.
Fun, less useful fact in a similar vein:
"Antipode" is pronounced "anti-pode" how you'd expect but the plural
"Antipodes" is pronounced "an-ti-po-dees"like A Greek word. I still have no idea why that's the case.
I have one that changed on me in college, but it wasnât a word Iâd come across like, a ton?
Clerestory is not pronounced cle-rest-ory as Iâd always thought, but is instead pronounced clear-story, because itâs typically windows and no full floor - clear story to let in light or air. Art history course corrected it and I felt so stupid the correction stuck.
See you just type the o and e really really fast. That way the o doesnât have the time to get out of the way of the e and they sorta get smooshed together. It takes some practice but youâll get there.
From Google Translate: "A scythe of the nightingale from the mist A bridle full of carrion stains, the first pride shrivelled from the bridle through a cornflower cluster in the willow bush, a carrion deer quarter of a handful of grain."
Why do you say that? It's just chez long. At worst it's like chez long-uh. So it's really just a different accent more than anything. Also, the word is french not english so..
At least in my dialect of English and some others I know, the noun and adjective have the stress on the first syllable while the verb has it on the second
Thank you. It was Greek to me, but since English is a French dialect sprinkled with Germanic Romantic Latin seasonings, and acrimonious acronyms and euphemisms, I got confused. Somehow.
For me when it's a noun (visited the compound/mixed the compound), its COM-pound, and when it's a verb (compound the problem), its com-POUND. I guess that's it?
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Apeman42@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 318d
I read so many fantasy books growing up thinking "draught" rhymed with "aught", instead of just being another spelling of "draft".
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 38 pts · 318d
...Up until now, I still thought that. That's... significantly less fantastical, and I think a small part of me just died.
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 318d
I'm so sorry. I assumed I was the last to know.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 318d
Fret not! Hang on to "draut" in your mind with the rest of us early readers. And when you need to say draft, just spell it draft. Meanwhile in the privacy of your own head, you can think, "I'm hot, so I'll take a long refreshing draught of this draft beer whilst I stand in the cool draught from the door. " We'll never tell.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 317d
In this drought?
Skua@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 318d
Even worse: dialects of English that use draught don't use it for every sense of the word. A breeze getting into a room is a draught, but your first effort at writing something is still a draft
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 317d
What about a draft beer?
Skua@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 317d
Draught beer (at least in the UK). The board game chequers/checkers uses draughts too. I think the military calling people up would be a draft, but it would more commonly be referred to as conscription
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 317d
Another good one: gaol = jail. I kept pronouncing it in my head like "gowl".
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one · 6 pts · 317d
Australian, I flat out refused to ever use 'gaol' from the moment I first encountered it in school.
Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 317d
Because prison colony, or ...???
TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 317d
đ€Ł
arsCynic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 316d
đ€Ż
BenVimes@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 317d
'Epitome' will forever be epi-tome in my head: 'epi' like in EpiPen and tome as in a big heavy book.
And the 'c' in 'indictment' also always gets pronounced when I read the word to myself.
ADTJ@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 317d
Interesting, I never had an issue with those but the one that got my growing up was awry. I still want to read it as "aw-ree" like "awful" despite knowing it's actually "ah-rye". I also knew the latter as a spoken word but I guess I didn't question how it was spelled for a long time.
Fun, less useful fact in a similar vein: "Antipode" is pronounced "anti-pode" how you'd expect but the plural "Antipodes" is pronounced "an-ti-po-dees"like A Greek word. I still have no idea why that's the case.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 317d
Um...it is aw-ree? It's not like a hard W, but it's there.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 317d
It's definitely uh-rye
ADTJ@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 317d
Nope, check the pronunciations here:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/awry
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 317d
Wait, what's epitome supposed to be?
coronach@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 317d
eh-PIT-oh-mee
I also said the other way growing up đ
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 317d
What the fuck.
tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 317d
this language is bullshit
Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 318d
I knew that long ago, but it'll remain drawt in my brain, just because....
mrbeano@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 318d
Yup. First pronunciation to make it to long-term storage, wins forever!
Like hyperbole, it's always "hyper-bowl" to me
Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 318d
Absolutey! It sounds way better, especially since that "should" be how it's pronounced phonetically, anyhow!
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social · 3 pts · 317d
I have one that changed on me in college, but it wasnât a word Iâd come across like, a ton?
Clerestory is not pronounced cle-rest-ory as Iâd always thought, but is instead pronounced clear-story, because itâs typically windows and no full floor - clear story to let in light or air. Art history course corrected it and I felt so stupid the correction stuck.
CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 317d
Thanks, as a non native english speaker, TIL that I also pronounced it wrong the whole time...
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 317d
So⊠thatâs also how you say checkers in parts of Europe and both pronunciations are acceptable.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 316d
Tic Tack Toe is also called Naughts and Crosses.
abrake@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 317d
What about "drouth"?
dariusj18@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 317d
I call this being bookish (pronounced bawkish or boo-kish)
Mubelotix@jlai.lu · 50 pts · 318d
It's actually "Hors d'Ćuvre"...
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 13 pts · 317d
What the hell is going on with french keyboards anyway?
zerofk@lemmy.zip · 34 pts · 317d
See you just type the o and e really really fast. That way the o doesnât have the time to get out of the way of the e and they sorta get smooshed together. It takes some practice but youâll get there.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 317d
Wait have you never seen long press?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 317d
Compose-O-E
Easy.
blinfabian@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 317d
horse doovrey
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 36 pts · 318d
You might as well just have said 'French' and be done with it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 31 pts · 318d
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 317d
mcz@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 317d
Ć krt plch z mlh Brd pln skvrn z mrv prv hrd scvrnkl z brzd skrz trs chrp v krs vrb mls mrch srn Ätvrthrst zrn.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 317d
Most normal czech/polish type sentence
TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 317d
From Google Translate: "A scythe of the nightingale from the mist A bridle full of carrion stains, the first pride shrivelled from the bridle through a cornflower cluster in the willow bush, a carrion deer quarter of a handful of grain."
mcz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 317d
Cool! Now do "w Szczebrzeszynie chrzÄ szcz brzmi w trzcinie"
TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 317d
Lol... Okay: "In Szczebrzeszyn a beetle sounds in the reeds"
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 316d
This is a fine Slavic wedding vow.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 317d
â Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 317d
People will complain about that but not look twice at "rendezvous".
I don't think that I've ever heard anybody pronounce "chaise longue" correctly. It's "shay long".
dave@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 317d
Actually (pronounced acktschually) itâs âshayz longâ The âsâ is usually only silent when itâs the last letter of the word.
zerofk@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 317d
You should hear how the French pronounce it. Canât even recognise it as English anymore.
nyctre@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 317d
Why do you say that? It's just chez long. At worst it's like chez long-uh. So it's really just a different accent more than anything. Also, the word is french not english so..
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 317d
I think you got whooshed on that last english part.
nyctre@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 317d
Hah.. yeah, you're right xD. My bad
ODGreen@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 317d
Shez Long
It literally means long chair. Not lounge chair.
Nobody pronounces "bruschetta" correctly; it's "broo-SKET-ta"
Dragonstaff@leminal.space · 1 pts · 317d
Jerkface@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 317d
An Italian told me off through the TV set and I promised never to say "broo-SHET-ta" again.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 317d
chez â chaise
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 317d
Wet Leg did a song about it
https://youtu.be/Zd9jeJk2UHQ
M137@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 317d
Queue
Psythik@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 317d
Every letter after the first is completely unnecessary.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 317d
Niche drives me nuts as a French speaker. It is not Nitch. It is Knee-shh. I will die on this hill
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 316d
As a non-French speaker, I completely agree with you. If I use a borrowed word, I do my best to pronounce it like a native speaker would.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 316d
As a colonizer, I consider it my duty to butcher borrowed/foreign words. You should hear me say bolognese.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 316d
Baloneys?
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 316d
Buh-LOG-nees.
It's an Italian sauce. Actually pronounced like bolonays
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 316d
Ouch.
brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 316d
Could y'all please stop dieing on hills all the time?! I love hiking, but all the corpses are really disturbing.
KarfiolosHus@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 316d
Nietzsche
Here you go, now nobody's happy
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 316d
That K is unnecessary in Knee-shh
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 318d
There, fixed it.
Beacon@fedia.io · 8 pts · 318d
All the homonyms with different pronunciations.
Read / Read
Lead / Lead
Compound / Compound
Bass / Bass
Content / Content
etc.
Skua@kbin.earth · 15 pts · 318d
Mostly the opposite situation to your comment since they're spelled the same but pronounced differently, but it feels relevant
Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 318d
It could be a brain fart, but 'compound'...?
Skua@kbin.earth · 8 pts · 318d
At least in my dialect of English and some others I know, the noun and adjective have the stress on the first syllable while the verb has it on the second
Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 318d
Thank you. It was Greek to me, but since English is a French dialect sprinkled with Germanic Romantic Latin seasonings, and acrimonious acronyms and euphemisms, I got confused. Somehow.
Skua@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 317d
Hey now, it's a German dialect with French Romantic seasonings! Much clearer, of course
dontsayaword@piefed.social · 2 pts · 318d
For me when it's a noun (visited the compound/mixed the compound), its COM-pound, and when it's a verb (compound the problem), its com-POUND. I guess that's it?
Beacon@fedia.io · 2 pts · 317d
The chemicals join together forming a new COMpound.
If you don't correct a problem early on then the damage will comPOUND over time.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 7 pts · 318d
Horse Divorce
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 317d
Of course, of course.
jonman364@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 315d
Of course it's coarse
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 317d
Make it just a little bit worse, that Ć hits the spot:
d'Ćuvre
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 317d
The word ok expecting me to spell it out instead of pronouncing it like oak.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 317d
I mean...okay, that's fair.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 317d
Not oak, just ok.
Hupf@feddit.org · 1 pts · 317d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language#History_of_the_modern_term
Brown5500@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 317d
Capicola
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 316d
Gabagool
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 318d
I think it's too much that you drive in the parkway but park in the driveway.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 318d
hors đ
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 316d
Good name for an equine cleaner.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 318d
kureta@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 317d
I always thought there seems to be one "u" too many in colloquium.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 316d
One could save two U's by not using colloquium in the first place. Five Dollar Words, and all that.