I pronounce the ‘u’ in ‘pronunciation’ like in ‘putting’ but the ‘ou’ in ‘pronounce’ like in ‘wound’.


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[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

[Caption below the panel:]
Pet peeve: Ambiguous pronunciation guides

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“My name is Perry, not Terry, with a ‘P’ as in ‘Pterodactyl’.”

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Pterry

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“Thompson, with a ‘P’, as in psychology”

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Yeah… silent Ps are weird 😅

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Whatever do you mean, puh-saldorn?

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Depends on your aim.

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LOL I forgot where that’s from!

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The english language is … missing some litterary updates.
A is pronounced [ei]. E is [ii] and I is [ai]. What’s up with that.

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IIUC the problem is that they updated the pronunciation without updating the spelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

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I started learning Japanese recently. It’s made me realizehow sloppy English is with vowel sounds.

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oh hey it me

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EYuesday?

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all my troubles seemed so far away?

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or /ɪɛztɛɪaɪ/ depending on whether you treat the final phoneme of moped as /t/ or /d/ -> [t]

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