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Graham DownsHow do you pronounce Vladimir Putin's surname? <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/polls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#polls</a>(Yes, I know many Americans pronounce Ts as Ds, so if you say "Poo-din" it counts as "Poo-tin" for the purposes of this poll) :-)

WordofTheHour<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a> : the act of giving the proper sound and accent- French: prononciation- German: die Aussprache- Italian: pronuncia- Portuguese: pronúncia- Spanish: pronunciación------------Fill in missing translations @ <a href="https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations</a>

LkdcPeople on Mastodon often refer to residents of the United States as "USians". This avoids the use of the word "Americans", which some non-US people in South America, Central America, and North America think should apply to all people in the Americas. This makes sense to me, and now I often write "USian".I would like also to use the word "USian" in spoken conversation, but I don't know the correct pronunciation. Can anyone tell me how to pronounce it? Should I spell it out, saying "U-S-I-A-N", or is there another pronunciation of fewer syllables?<a href="https://dmv.community/tags/USian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USian</a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a>

ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ<a href="https://flipping.rocks/@colinpurrington" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@colinpurrington</a> LOL - doesn't nearly everybody? (Well, since they pretty much stopped teaching classical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Latin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Latin</a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/1960s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#1960s</a> (in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> anyway)). And don't get me started on the plural of fungus! Just don't. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a> 😉

Graham DownsBiopic is a portmanteau of "biographical picture".Hence, it should be pronounced BIOpic. It does not rhyme with myopic. Stop it. :D <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a>

Kagan MacTane (he/him)I really wish the person running this meeting would stop pronouncing the word "checkbox" as if it were "chexbox" (or checksbox?).I'm not even going to speculate about how she pronounces "asterisk". (Actually, I'm pretty sure I know. Just like Goscinny and Uderzo's Gaul. 🙄)Anyway, it's a small pet peeve, but it's still a peeve. So I'm peevish.<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/PetPeeve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PetPeeve</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/pedantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pedantic</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/grouchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grouchy</a>

Cassana 🍻"Train changing", "drum majoring", and "street shopping" don't sound like <a href="https://the-crossroads-inn.com/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> terms, right? Still, this video talks about the initial results of a survey on the pronunciation of tr, dr, and str in English to which those mentioned terms refer. English <a href="https://the-crossroads-inn.com/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a> is slowly changing. And I have to agree with him that knowing about this is especially useful for L2/ESL learners. <a href="https://the-crossroads-inn.com/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-v2sbY6sr8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-v2sbY6sr8</a>

unfa🇺🇦How to speak annoyingly with intent and technique a.k.a the post-nuclear(?) drop speech pattern:<a href="https://youtu.be/4IJLyFAzYes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/4IJLyFAzYes</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voiceover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voiceover</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#english</a>

Damon Thomas"I Was There To Learn" <a href="https://c.im/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/college" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#college</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a>

Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ESI have a sexy accent when I speak English.🤷 Source: my boyfriend.:catjam: <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/sexy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sexy</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/accents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accents</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/SexyAccent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SexyAccent</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/FrenchCanadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FrenchCanadian</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/qu%C3%A9becois" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#québecois</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/EnglishLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnglishLanguage</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a>

Fifi Schwarz 🖤 🍉✊🏿🌈🌍For language lovers: A funny video about English pronunciation is going round. If you like that one, and if you stumble over the same words, this will have you rolling over the floor laughing. Read out loud 😁<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos?wprov=sfla1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos?wprov=sfla1</a><a href="https://waag.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://waag.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://waag.social/tags/Pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pronunciation</a> <a href="https://waag.social/tags/Taal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taal</a> <a href="https://waag.social/tags/Uitspraak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Uitspraak</a> <a href="https://waag.social/tags/TheChaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheChaos</a>

Denny VrandečićTIL that the "My" in MySQL is not the English word my but the Swedish name My, for the daughter of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MySQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MySQL</a> co-founder Michael Widenius. ♡The name My was introduced by Tove Jansson for the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Moomins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Moomins</a> character Little My, who is named after the Greek letter mu.So you could pronounce My as [ˈmyː] or as [maɪ].Never mind how to pronounce SQL.MySQL documentation defines the official <a href="https://mas.to/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a> as “My Ess Que Ell” but the devs in Swedish say "mü-ess-ku-ell".Sources in reply.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

Sean MurthyAlright, for the last time: "nuclear" is pronounced "noo-klear" or "new-klear". It is NOT pronounced "noo-kewlar".This notice stands whether the speaker is George W or Tim W.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/vpdebate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vpdebate</a>

Kevin P. FlemingFun with English:Most words ending with 'owl' or 'owel' are pronounced the same way:bowel cowl dowel fowl howl jowl prowl towel trowel vowel yowlThen there's 'bowl', which stands alone with a different pronunciation (like 'goal').<a href="https://mastodon.km6g.us/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://mastodon.km6g.us/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.km6g.us/tags/Pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pronunciation</a>

guyjantic has moved!Old Man <a href="https://c.im/tags/GetOffMyLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GetOffMyLawn</a> rantEnglish is a garbage language in some ways, but it has some fucking rules.If your kid's name is spelled D-Y-L-A-N it cannot be pronounced "Daylun." It just can't.IF your kid's name is spelled D-A-Y-U-N-A it fucking cannot be pronounced "Diana." Yes, our rules are stupid and have lots of exceptions. But if my name is spelled F-R-E-D I can't expect people to pronounce it "Robert."<a href="https://c.im/tags/rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rant</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fightme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fightme</a>

scyInteresting. According to Brent Spiner (the actor who plays the android Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation)1) it was Patrick Stewart's UK pronunciation of his character's name (day-tah instead of the US's dah-tah) that made this pronunciation canon, and2) the character of Data and the popularity of Star Trek has led to "day-tah" now being the common pronunciation in the US, too.<a href="https://youtu.be/xeqTMTOxid8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/xeqTMTOxid8</a> (π min)<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarTrek</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/StarTrekTNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarTrekTNG</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TNG</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/EnglishLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnglishLanguage</a>

Kelvin n0mql EN35ld<a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/@Geojoek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Geojoek</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/@ve3qbz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ve3qbz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/@kf7ccc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kf7ccc</a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/@salubrium" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@salubrium</a> Hoo, boy, yeah, our <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/Pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pronunciation</a> does not only vary, but shift. And it shifts very quickly, all while people are irritated by younger people (or people a few hundred KM away) "are pronouncing it wrong!"But you reminded me of a customer support phone call I made, & she was having trouble understanding the order number (or whatever) so I used the ICAO Phonetics.She got pissed because her sister's name is Ciara, and you can guess the rest.

IBBoardMy wife is playing Star Wars Outlaws and some of the Storm Troopers are calling them "Ay-Tee Ay-Tees" rather than "At-Ats".Is that REALLY how they're supposed to be pronounced?! It sounds like "80-80s"!<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/StarWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarWars</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/StarWarsOutlaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarWarsOutlaws</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pronunciation</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SoundsWrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoundsWrong</a>

Leif<a href="https://mamot.fr/@jesuisgavroche" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jesuisgavroche</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/@jdskog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jdskog</a>Read this out loud.<a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#english</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a><a href="https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html</a>

Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES"Why do you self-boost?""Because I want to be popular!""But you cannot be a poplar.""What?""You cannot be a tree.""Who said I wanted to be a tree?""You did!""How?""You said you wanted to be a poplar."And thus it was that the author ran out of ideas.<a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/popular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#popular</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/poplar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poplar</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/pronunciation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronunciation</a>

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