Title text: I pronounce the 'u' in 'pronunciation' like in 'putting' but the 'ou' in 'pronounce' like in 'wound'.
I pronounce "ghoti" as "I wish people would take it in the fun it's intended instead of treating it as an attempt at a legitimate construction and criticising it on that basis". It's a stretch, but I make it work.
Some of those letters are part of digraphs, so it doesn't make sense to say that they're pronounced a certain way. (Even if you prefer an analysis without digraphs, the "e" and "y" still aren't pronounced, and none of the example words as far as I know have possible pronunciations where the letter is silent.)
"buffet", pronounced like "buffet"
"minute", pronounced like "mint"
"record", pronounced like "errcord"(?)
"use", pronounced like "you"
"moped", pronounced like "mope"
"bass", pronounced like "bss" (somewhere between a "psst" and a buzz)
"gyro", pronounced like "grow"
In one of Leslie Charteris's Saint books from the 1930s, he spelled out BEPPO: 'B for Bdellium, E for Eiderdown, P for Psychology, P for Ptarmigan, O for a muse of fire that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention!'
chridd wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 4:10 am
Some of those letters are part of digraphs, so it doesn't make sense to say that they're pronounced a certain way. (Even if you prefer an analysis without digraphs, the "e" and "y" still aren't pronounced, and none of the example words as far as I know have possible pronunciations where the letter is silent.)
Randall's clever as usual, this time with ambiguous pronunciations
Buffet - stand-up meal v/s thump (boofay v/s buffett)
Minute - tiny v/s 60 seconds
Record - verb v/s noun
Use - verb v/s noun
Moped - motorised bike v/s sulked
Bass - deep voice v/s fish
Gyro - the only one I don't get as I can only think of one way to say it
