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


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

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


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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didnt know gyro could be pronunced in multiple ways

[–] Skua@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago

Ohh gyros as in the food lol

[–] stringbeantheory@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

the greek food gyro is kinda pronounced "yee-ro"

[–] Cabrio@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[–] tuesday@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

oh hey it me

[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

all my troubles seemed so far away?

[–] tuesday@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. The ⟨s⟩ in use could also be /s/, I just wrote what first came to mind.

[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

And ⟨e⟩ in record /ɪ/, etc. etc.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago

In all fairness, the Y in "you" is totally pronounced.