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themeatbridgePronouncing the letter, or saying the letter’s name?
I get three for the former, and four for the latter.
The latter
Pronouncing the letter, or saying the letter’s name?
A, George B, Hollis
But seriously, what?
Pronouncing the letter - Ay, bee, cee
Saying the letters name???
snooggumsW has a 'b' sound in the name, but doesn't when used in a word.
“B” is not pronounced “bee”, that is how you pronounce the name of the letter. It makes a “buh” sound.
The important one is “W” because if you name the letter, “double yew” your lips will touch. If you pronounce the letter, “wuh wuh,” then your lips do not touch.
The other letters are M and P, and your lips touch both saying the name and making the sound the letter represents.
Ohh how it’s pronounced in words!
If you pronounce the letter, “wuh wuh,” then your lips do not touch.
Your lips don’t touch making w in wuh?
In the middle? No, but if we’re including touching at the corners, then O, U, F, V, G, J, Q, and Y all join the party.
XtallllWuh what sound do you think “W” makes?
/w/
as opposed to /dəbl’yju:/
MinnesotaGoddamSaying their name I get zero.
Say “B, M, P” without closing your mouth.
They’re named Eric what did you name yours?
I didn’t rename them. They have names. B, M, and P.
Whatever floats your oat
Cloudless ☼“sensed”
Here i am, mouthing letters in the bathroom stall
Reached the letter o and got a surprise from the hole in the wall
Oh! Pee!
I just BMPW’d while taking a shit as well
ComradeSharkfuckerI am also taking a shit and mouthing letters bro
I too am delaying the wipe!
Mine slightly tough for f
For me (german native speaker), f has my upper teeth on my lower lips while still leaving a gap to the upper lips
B M P W
Instead of W, you mean
KingJalopy Sometimes
I’d argue ‘f’ they don’t press hard but they lightly touch
Bro what are you doing with your lips? “F” is top teeth on lower lip.
My front lip is over my teeth when I say it, and it is touching the bottom lip.
you can also form an /s/ with various parts of the tongue and mouth but it’s generally held to be an alveolar bladal fricative.
agent_flounderThat would interrupt airflow would it not?
Not if your lips just touch lightly in the middle and the air flows around the sides.
Maybe it’s a regional thing, but that’s also how I say that sound.
Could be regional yeah. Interesting!
Yeah - I mean, I can say an f-word like “fountain” without lowering my upper lip and (to my ears at least) it sounds almost the same if not identical, but I have to do it consciously and it feels unnatural.
You don’t purse the lips together, they’re lightly touching allowing air to go through
What the pfuck are you pfrattling on about?
steboW still leaves an opening tho
They’re probably pronouncing it as “Double-U”…
How else is it pronounced?
It’s double v in several languages
as a phoneme, it’s a bilabial approximant - meaning the lips form the sound by moving close but not touching and then parting again
compare to the palatal approixmant /y/ formed by the root of the tongue performing a similar action with the soft palate.
just like in “We”
You don’t pronounce “we” as “double ue” do you?
Like … Have you ever read a word with w in it?
I kinda know what you are getting at - if you dictate a word by pronouncing each letter separately you need to add stuff to each one to make it stand out - but Jesus Christ, what a question.
Hodoubleu is the doublueather today? Only a fedoubleu oubleuhite clouds in a clear blue sky.
Thanks for making me laugh!
I vote we change it in English to be pronounced like in German. It always bugged me that it’s the only multisyllabic letter name. Along the same lines, we should rename seven to sev.
The time save when pronouncing “www” is incredible. 🙃
I sometimes like reading or listening to stories of people scamming scammers. He used this exact thing to really confuse the scammer.
“Please type in double u double double u…”
“Alright, I typed in double u double u double… It says page not found” (i.e. uuuuuu)
In German y is not pronounced as “why”, but instead as “Ypsilon”. You ein some you lose some I guess.
More infuriating is “e” - it’s pronounced as “I” ffs! But when in a word only if it’s the first letter or something. Otherwise it’s pronounced as “e” as it rightfully should be!
well it only touches at the B sounds and we already had B so…
It doesn’t say “no opening”, it just says “lips touch”. My lips can touch without completely closing.
ok but for “we” the opening is large enough for them to not touch at all
I feel like double u is cheating since that’s just b again.
I get 6, yours plus F and Y.
harmsyBruh what are you smoking? My lips don’t touch for W. They don’t even move half the time.
OpenStarsThey are: K-I-S-S :-P
I feel like W shouldn’t count since it’s basically just borrowing from B though.
Same with Y in German
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