PluMGMK wrote:Yod-dropping, as I mentioned before. But not exclusively American by any means!
On a related note, does anyone use a "you" in "solution"?
No, and I wouldn't even pronounce alluminium as I suggested unless it was in a formal context. I make a lot of deliberate errors when speaking colloquially. It's just social conventions really, I'm out there to be liked and not to be seen as some strange Olde English guy who cares about pronunciation.
Hoodcom wrote:Fifo's making me want to get another turn table, with all this talk of vinyl... my old one's okay but I want a DD model.
Quartz lock would be nice – I have a belt drive non-quartz-locked turntable and the speed issues bother me.
There do seem to be two potentiometers on the bottom of my turntable but I don’t know which one is for 33⅓ and which one for 45rpm and I don’t wanna screw anything up.
Xenon wrote:There should be a 'you' in there as well. Pretty sure the 'oo' sound is the result of another lazy Americanism.
Well apparently it's not, as Shroob explained a few posts above.
PluMGMK wrote:On a related note, does anyone use a "you" in "solution"?
Well if we're going to point out all the inconsistencies of English pronunciation that's gonna take a while. One of my favorites is finite and infinite.
PluMGMK wrote:While we're at it, who says "dee-ity" and who says "day-ity" (for "deity")? Actually, maybe that should be one of Ray's polls…
I say day-ity but English is not exactly my first language.
Reminds me of the blog post I was gonna write about inconsistencies in English spelling. It span completely out of control so now it's just sitting there waiting to be "rewritten"… which I'll probably never get around to.
I say neither [dee-ih-ty] nor [day-ih-ty] but rather something in between like [deay-ih-ty] (if that makes any sense at all lol I need IPA characters to help me here). But it leans more towards [dee] than [day].
Keane wrote:I'm curious, how do you fellas pronounce banus? Me, personally, I say bay-nuss, but I imagine others might refer to it as bah-noos?
Pardon me, my humor sensors are freshly configured, was that post at any moment supposed to be funny at any level or considered as something else than a shitpost?
