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What about words that everybody pronounces wrong, such as “nougat”? No, it’s not “new-git”, it’s “new-gah”. I even heard “nugget” from somebody not long ago.
Who the hell pronounced nougat as new-git?
American here: I've never heard it pronouned any other way.
Do you also hear Caramel pronounced as Carmel? I hate that one...
That one depends on the person. Sometimes it's "care-mul" but others sometimes annunciate the word "carAmel" properly. Especially those in and around Carmel. Because it is not candy.
carmel is a pretty little town... didn't they elect clint eastwood as mayor or something?
That's a regional thing in the US. I've always pronounced the second a.
Seriously. It's new git. Why the hell have a t if it's silent? And I was taught by candy commercials, the only time we really even hear the word is in reference to candy.
Why the hell have a gh if it’s silent? English is screwy
To distinguish it from taut which is pronounced the exact same way. :)
We didn't bother with wind, wind, live, live, etc.
I figured it'd be america tbh. Not a single word there is pronounced correctly
Not true. We have exactly one word that is pronounced that way. 😌
Huh. I guess correctly is pronounced correctly lol
I hate this weird mix between IPA and Latin letters. It's not how this works
You're joking, right? Under what standard are words in American English pronounced incorrectly? I mean, let's just take this example:
Milky Way candy bar commercials in the US?
Can we just disconnect the whole country from the internet? Too many weird things coming out of there /hj
Did you just offer me a handjob?
Nice save
I like to save the handjobs till at least the first date uwu
Americans. Probably Canadians, too. Although it's more "-gut" than "-git."
In French, sure. But unless you also talk about the national budzhay, you get that loan words can have different pronunciations.
Apparently "nihilism" is meant to be pronounced like "nee-hilism", but if you say it like that, nobody knows what the fuck you're trying to say.
What’s even the point of nihilism then
If you want to change pronunciations to be closer to the original language the word derives from, you'd be changing most of English.
I pronounce "pecan" pea-kahn unless it's a pea-can pie.