wason@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 年前Never change Lemmylemmy.worldimagemessage-square69linkfedilinkarrow-up1970arrow-down120file-text
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minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·edit-22 年前Ironic that pronouncing a single letter is more cumbersome than the full word.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-22 年前“Every single other letter is one syllable, can we just pronounce this one ‘wuh’”? “No, it must have THREE!”
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-22 年前Germans: “Ridiculous! We will pronounce it like ‘vay’”. “Well, that’s a lot…” “…AND ‘Y’ WILL BE ‘OOPSILON’”! ಠ_ಠ
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 年前Lots of languages do upsilon, it comes from greek
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前They do, but it’s silly when the vast majority of letters are pronounced with one syllable.
minus-squarekase@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 年前 Every single other letter Noooo, you forgot “and z” has two /s
minus-squaremexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 年前I call it zed or zee both have one syllable ri8?
Ironic that pronouncing a single letter is more cumbersome than the full word.
u v DOUBLE U x y z
“Every single other letter is one syllable, can we just pronounce this one ‘wuh’”?
“No, it must have THREE!”
English is indeed a funny language.
Germans: “Ridiculous! We will pronounce it like ‘vay’”.
“Well, that’s a lot…”
“…AND ‘Y’ WILL BE ‘OOPSILON’”!
ಠ_ಠ
TIL!
Lots of languages do upsilon, it comes from greek
They do, but it’s silly when the vast majority of letters are pronounced with one syllable.
Noooo, you forgot “and z” has two /s
I call it zed or zee both have one syllable ri8?