Accidental Tech Podcast648: Part of the Movement
https://atp.fm/648
Jeff Williams' retirement, Liquid Glass revisions, and our review of F1® The Movie. While supplies last. Terms apply.
Michael Brown@atpfm do all Americans pronounce “ph” like “p” instead of “f” as in “amPitheater” instead of “amFitheater” for “amphitheater”, or is it just @caseyliss ?
Casey Liss@mluisbrown I’ve never knowingly heard anyone pronounce it with a F sound
Hugo Sousa@caseyliss @mluisbrown wait, what? Isn’t always an F sound?! Like phone or pharmacy?! What about alphabet? 🤔
@hsousa @mluisbrown those are Fs.
Amphitheater is not.
English makes about as much sense as °C does. Or inches/feet/miles.
sayrer@caseyliss @hsousa @mluisbrown definitely more common to say "amP" in the US. I do it, even though I know it is /technically/ wrong. Like, an English teacher or a Theater teacher might use the F way. If you're not in such a role, the F way can make you sound highfalutin.
It's just because many similar words use P or B. "amplitude", "ambiguous", but not "amphibious"!
You can hear it in the Greek here:
https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=el&text=amphitheater&op=translate
@caseyliss @mluisbrown mind. blown.
@caseyliss @hsousa in UK English Amphitheatre is pronounced with an F like all other “ph”s, but it seems like the P version is not uncommon in US English.