dogsoahC@lemm.ee to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 3 months agoI, too, like books.files.catbox.moeimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageI, too, like books.files.catbox.moedogsoahC@lemm.ee to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareBerttheduck@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoTo help my American lemmings with pronunciation: Red-ing and Bark-shere. It’s a very good university too.
minus-squaredogsoahC@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoAnglophones have no right to complain about French pronunciation. What the fuck is this shit?
minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoHalf the reason our pronunciation is so weird is that a bunch of French guys took over England
minus-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoIt would be so much easier if we had accents over our vowels, like in a lot of languages to indicate which of that vowels sounds was wanted.
minus-squareBerttheduck@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoTell me about it English is a bastardised language made up of so many different languages rules. Have you heard of Lee and Perrins Worcestershire sauce? It’s pronounced wuster-shere. Great sauce btw, real umami flavour and great on cheese on toast.
minus-squareTWeaK@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoMy favourite is Wymondham. (Like the blowy kind,) Wind-um. Also, fuck Worcester sauce.
minus-squareGreatAlbatross@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoI like Towcester. Excellent for breakfast crumpets.
minus-squaredogsoahC@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI’ve heard it as “English isn’t a language. It’s three languages under a trench coat, pretending to be a language.”
To help my American lemmings with pronunciation: Red-ing and Bark-shere.
It’s a very good university too.
Anglophones have no right to complain about French pronunciation. What the fuck is this shit?
Half the reason our pronunciation is so weird is that a bunch of French guys took over England
It would be so much easier if we had accents over our vowels, like in a lot of languages to indicate which of that vowels sounds was wanted.
Tell me about it English is a bastardised language made up of so many different languages rules. Have you heard of Lee and Perrins Worcestershire sauce? It’s pronounced wuster-shere.
Great sauce btw, real umami flavour and great on cheese on toast.
My favourite is Wymondham. (Like the blowy kind,) Wind-um.
Also, fuck Worcester sauce.
I like Towcester.
Excellent for breakfast crumpets.
I’ve heard it as “English isn’t a language. It’s three languages under a trench coat, pretending to be a language.”