For language lovers:
A funny video about English pronunciation is going round.
If you like that one, and if you stumble over the same words, this will have you rolling over the floor laughing. Read out loud
TIL that the "My" in MySQL is not the English word my but the Swedish name My, for the daughter of #MySQL co-founder Michael Widenius. ♡
The name My was introduced by Tove Jansson for the #Moomins character Little My, who is named after the Greek letter mu.
So you could pronounce My as [ˈmyː] or as [maɪ].
Never mind how to pronounce SQL.
MySQL documentation defines the official #pronunciation as “My Ess Que Ell” but the devs in Swedish say "mü-ess-ku-ell".
Sources in reply.
Interesting. According to Brent Spiner (the actor who plays the android Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1) it was Patrick Stewart's UK pronunciation of his character's name (day-tah instead of the US's dah-tah) that made this pronunciation canon, and
2) the character of Data and the popularity of Star Trek has led to "day-tah" now being the common pronunciation in the US, too.
https://youtu.be/xeqTMTOxid8 (π min)
The scone pronunciation map of Britain
…a recent YouGov study of more than 54,000 Britons finding that 51% say they pronounce the word to rhyme with ‘gone’ but 45% saying they pronounce it to rhyme with ‘bone’.
https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/50339-the-scone-pronunciation-map-of-britain
#YouGov #Poll #Food #Pronunciation #Map #Dialect #English #Language #Linguistics #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #GreatBritain #Britain @linguistics
#Video length: thirteen minutes and fifty one seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NihLE-wh0xc
#Kamala #Harris #KamalaHarris #Pronunciation #Linguistics @linguistics
Long video with a comprehensive reconstruction of Old English #pronunciation
An #English pronunciation question: How do you pronounce the word "Beta"?
Please boost to widen the sample. #polls #pronunciation #Beta
Kidding aside, when you get tours of a Microsoft facility and ask this question, the official answer is "say 'Azure' like Nadella says it" - which is:
"AAA-zher"
The overall effect sort of rhymes with "badger", but with a 'zh'.
Some of the people in this video get it wrong, but the clips of Nadella are what matters: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AmP11EgEM4g
#RandomThoughts
How did Brits ever get "Spain" from "España"?
None of the vowel signs and not even all of the consonant sounds.
Kakorrhaphiophobia, which presumably means an abnormal fear of failure to pronounce "kakorrhaphiophobia" first time without stumbling.
TIL that people pronounce the beginning of the word "giga" as in gigabyte very differently including /ɡɪ/ (as in gig), /dʒɪ/ (as in jig), /ɡaɪ/ (as in guy) and even /dʒaɪ/ (as in giant).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga-#Pronunciation
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/18ialg3/til_that_people_pronounce_the_beginning_of_the/
American speaks Latin to Italians in Rome – watch their reaction!
https://youtu.be/DYYpTfx1ey8 #YouTube #Video #Latin #Rome #Italy #Italian #America #USA #Pronunciation #Language #Languages @linguistics
How do you pronounce “www” the abbreviation for “World Wide Web”?
Ah here, I was this years old when I heard that Charles Stewart Parnell probably didn’t pronounce his own surname in the way it’s widely applied to Dublin landmarks and roads (par-NELL) but in the same way one might expect to hear in Ireland, with less emphasis on the second syllable (PARN’nell). Gonna road test this out IRL: “Just heading up to PARN’nell Square now. #ParnellNotParnell #CharlesStewartParnell #Parnell #Mastodaoine #pronunciation #IrishSurname https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/charles-stewart-parnell
Pronunciation Public Service Announcement:
"Meme" is pronounced "MEEEEM" not "Me-Me."
ChatGPT-4 Plus Explains it better than I ever could.
(See attached image!)
TLDR:
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The word "meme" is pronounced as /miːm/, rhyming with "team" or "cream." This pronunciation was intended by Dawkins to rhyme with "gene," emphasizing the parallel between the two concepts (Dawkins, R. 1976).
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