MY RESPONSE:

@billyjoebowers

My father's side of the family, native to Massachusetts for awhile, used to pronounce "aunt" with the "au" sound not just the short "a" even when I used to as a kid from Pennsylvania. So it never sounded totally wrong to me ...

#Accents #Pronunciations #Words

@pawsplay @c_dan4th

Unique style, all right ... Let's see, per Wikipedia, he was born and raised in a small town in Pennsylvania, where his family had run a hardware store for generations. So, a Pennsylvanian sound. And I like this critic's description of him in an early movie: "lanky young bumpkin with a hesitant manner of speech." Ha!

#Accents #Pronunciations #Words

Something you don't hear enough of in #boxing is commentators actually discussing name #pronunciations and adjusting to get it right. The commentators in this clip really get into it with #Gvozdyk first and then #Rodrigues later. This should be the norm for an #international #sport but simply isn't.

#linguistics #phonetics #Ukrainian #Portuguese #sports

https://youtu.be/vZo96OPohEk?si=_dzcW1USrkEPgRpC

Isaac Rodriguez vs Oleksandr Gvozdyk Full Fight | Light Heavyweight Bout

YouTube
Cahr-muhl
33.3%
Ca-ruh-muhl
0%
Ca-ruh-mehl
66.7%
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So does anyone else kinda not like #Duolingo? Like, it’s a nice and easy way to begin #learning a #language and it seems a lot of my friends also use it, the problem is instead of getting real people to do the voices they use text-to speech, which means you often do not get the correct #pronunciation. Like, often you get both a normal speed and a slow speed recordings of the pronunciation to pick from, and the two versions will often use completely different #TTS voices that not only have diffent quality, but also very different #pronunciations despite being the same words or sentences. It seems like the wrong way to learn a language. Also, what is up with the #owl? @actuallyautistic

My answering machine just screened a call from "FID-ul dell FYE-uh."

I was so tickled that I almost picked up.

#SpamCalls #Pronunciations #ItsAlwaysFunnyInPhiladelphia

#TV I am surprised #Jeopardy declined all the contestants' #Pronunciations of "#Solzhenitsyn."

How do you pronounce #SIEM

#cybersecurity #pronunciations

Sim
23.5%
Seem
76.5%
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