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minus-squareDozzi92@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·16 天前I just wouldn’t think to look up a word I assumed I was pronouncing correctly. I’m pretty good at this reading thing, and so I apply the standards, but words like epitome and ethereal are just here to fuck with us.
minus-squareTabbsTheBat@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-215 天前Tbf a call line wouldn’t help you in that case either, which is the premise of this. You wouldn’t call about words you assume you know
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 天前I can’t imagine “ethereal” being pronounced any other way than the correct one. “Etha-real?”
I just wouldn’t think to look up a word I assumed I was pronouncing correctly. I’m pretty good at this reading thing, and so I apply the standards, but words like epitome and ethereal are just here to fuck with us.
Tbf a call line wouldn’t help you in that case either, which is the premise of this. You wouldn’t call about words you assume you know
I can’t imagine “ethereal” being pronounced any other way than the correct one. “Etha-real?”
Pretty much, yeah. Eth-er-eal.