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Is it Sigil or Sigil

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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    Hey @3clipse how do you say, "Woburn?"

    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Gundi wrote: »
    i
    Peas wrote: »
    As a non westerner I only recently found out that tortilla is pronounced tortilla so I can never trust anything ever again

    if you two lls in english the word is probably a spanish loan and is probably pronounced with a y

    Or Welsh and it's sort of like gently clearing your throat

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Gundi wrote: »
    i
    Peas wrote: »
    As a non westerner I only recently found out that tortilla is pronounced tortilla so I can never trust anything ever again

    if you two lls in english the word is probably a spanish loan and is probably pronounced with a y
    Ehhhh I can think of a bunch of counterexamples, mostly words where it just ends in a double L though rather than an A or O sound on the end. You really just have to get a sense for when a word is spanish rather than english.
    Artillery
    Mill
    Hill
    Swill
    Hell
    Smell
    Pill
    Till
    Grill
    Chinchilla? (although now I am wondering if chin-chi-ya might be more correct)
    Oscillate

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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    Llama but with an English pronunciation.

    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
  • GrisloGrislo Registered User regular
    BahamutZERO wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    i
    Peas wrote: »
    As a non westerner I only recently found out that tortilla is pronounced tortilla so I can never trust anything ever again

    if you two lls in english the word is probably a spanish loan and is probably pronounced with a y
    Ehhhh I can think of a bunch of counterexamples, mostly words where it just ends in a double L though rather than an A or O sound on the end. You really just have to get a sense for when a word is spanish rather than english.
    Artillery
    Mill
    Hill
    Swill
    Hell
    Smell
    Pill
    Till
    Grill
    Chinchilla? (although now I am wondering if chin-chi-ya might be more correct)
    Oscillate

    How do you titiyate an ocelot? Osciyate its tit a lot.

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    Just so you know all the e’s are silent in my username.

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    BahamutZERO wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcgamesn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F12%2Fsigil-1-580x334.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

    999, good number

    Only because programmers are too lazy to go up to 1000.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    Gundi wrote: »
    i
    Peas wrote: »
    As a non westerner I only recently found out that tortilla is pronounced tortilla so I can never trust anything ever again

    if you two lls in english the word is probably a spanish loan and is probably pronounced with a y

    or also 'ja, yi, or ya' depending on where the spanish speaker is from

    EDIT: and that's only if it's a spanish loan word, if it's latin or welsh it's pronounced completely different

    english is a horrible language

    PiptheFair on
  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Gundi wrote: »
    i
    Peas wrote: »
    As a non westerner I only recently found out that tortilla is pronounced tortilla so I can never trust anything ever again

    if you two lls in english the word is probably a spanish loan and is probably pronounced with a y

    Really?

  • GrisloGrislo Registered User regular
    Do you pronounce is Doy Parton, or Doy-y Parton is the real question.

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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Brovid Hasselsmof wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    i
    Peas wrote: »
    As a non westerner I only recently found out that tortilla is pronounced tortilla so I can never trust anything ever again

    if you two lls in english the word is probably a spanish loan and is probably pronounced with a y

    Really?

    Could be French or Italian as well

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  • ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    Clean up in the sigil

    Steam
  • CarpyCarpy Registered User regular
    The Escape Goat wrote: »
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Poughkeepsie is the worst spelled word in the English language. It is pronounced in ways unlike it is spelled in two different ways!

    Look you take an amerindian word surrounded by other towns with Dutch names as a British settler and see how well you do with it.

    (I may have grown up in Poughkeepsie. Also notable is nearby Poughquag, pronounced "Poe-quay-g")

    Using quay in a pronunciation guide is a special kind of trolling.

  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    edited December 2020
    Carpy wrote: »
    The Escape Goat wrote: »
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Poughkeepsie is the worst spelled word in the English language. It is pronounced in ways unlike it is spelled in two different ways!

    Look you take an amerindian word surrounded by other towns with Dutch names as a British settler and see how well you do with it.

    (I may have grown up in Poughkeepsie. Also notable is nearby Poughquag, pronounced "Poe-quay-g")

    Using quay in a pronunciation guide is a special kind of trolling.

    I know I should be using IPA but I'm lazy as hell and that's effort

    The Escape Goat on
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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Carpy wrote: »
    The Escape Goat wrote: »
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Poughkeepsie is the worst spelled word in the English language. It is pronounced in ways unlike it is spelled in two different ways!

    Look you take an amerindian word surrounded by other towns with Dutch names as a British settler and see how well you do with it.

    (I may have grown up in Poughkeepsie. Also notable is nearby Poughquag, pronounced "Poe-quay-g")

    Using quay in a pronunciation guide is a special kind of trolling.

    gaol

  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    DisruptedCapitalist wrote: »
    Hey @3clipse how do you say, "Woburn?"

    You son of a bitch you know what you're setting me up for

    it's whoo-burn

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    The Escape Goat wrote: »
    Carpy wrote: »
    The Escape Goat wrote: »
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Poughkeepsie is the worst spelled word in the English language. It is pronounced in ways unlike it is spelled in two different ways!

    Look you take an amerindian word surrounded by other towns with Dutch names as a British settler and see how well you do with it.

    (I may have grown up in Poughkeepsie. Also notable is nearby Poughquag, pronounced "Poe-quay-g")

    Using quay in a pronunciation guide is a special kind of trolling.

    I know I should be using IPA but I'm lazy as hell and that's effort

    I prefer a best bitter or lambic

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    3clipse wrote: »
    DisruptedCapitalist wrote: »
    Hey @3clipse how do you say, "Woburn?"

    You son of a bitch you know what you're setting me up for

    it's whoo-burn

    Good. Now say "Billerica."

    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    I'M NOT YOUR PUPPET

  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Bill-rick-uh

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Endless_Serpents wrote: »
    Just so you know all the e’s are silent in my username.

    Huh, I thought everything but the underscore was silent in your username...

  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Y Cool H

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  • HugglesHuggles Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    i
    Peas wrote: »
    As a non westerner I only recently found out that tortilla is pronounced tortilla so I can never trust anything ever again

    if you two lls in english the word is probably a spanish loan and is probably pronounced with a y

    or also 'ja, yi, or ya' depending on where the spanish speaker is from

    EDIT: and that's only if it's a spanish loan word, if it's latin or welsh it's pronounced completely different

    english is a horrible language

    Crosspost from the Hiberno-Brittanic politics D&D thread:

    This is a fun thread but sums it up perfectly:



    @Kane2342 wrote:
    Somewhere i read "English is three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat" and i find it more and more true :D

    (User is a Twitter rando, sorry; just quoting my source!)

  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    Donovan Puppyfucker wrote: »
    Endless_Serpents wrote: »
    Just so you know all the e’s are silent in my username.

    Huh, I thought everything but the underscore was silent in your username...

    No the underscore is a stock kazoo sound effect.

  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Ok, non-Washington folks, pronounce this one:

    Natchitoches

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Notch-ee-tock?

  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Nachos.

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    Notch-ee-toe-chess.

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  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    Wahey, look at this wonderfully relevant video that just got uploaded:

    https://youtu.be/uYNzqgU7na4

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    The Geek wrote: »
    Ok, non-Washington folks, pronounce this one:

    Natchitoches

    If you want to know:
    nah-kuh-tish

    it would rhyme with "smack a fish"

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    The Geek wrote: »
    Ok, non-Washington folks, pronounce this one:

    Natchitoches

    woostershire

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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    Nova Scotia has some doozies. I'm not about to make fun of Mi'kmaw and other First Nations place names, and really Kejimkujik is pronounced exactly as it's spelled, it just looks complicated at first.

    but you get some that are Mi'kmaw names as transliterated by the French, that gets a bit more challenging, like Musquodoboit Harbour

  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    I went to Wales once.

    I don't think I pronounced a single sign correctly.

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    Lars on
  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    Brovid Hasselsmof wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    i
    Peas wrote: »
    As a non westerner I only recently found out that tortilla is pronounced tortilla so I can never trust anything ever again

    if you two lls in english the word is probably a spanish loan and is probably pronounced with a y

    Really?

    reay-ll

    heys beys this isn't complicated gulls
    yes i should probably just said if you think it's a latin-y loan word

    Gundi on
  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    The Geek wrote: »
    Ok, non-Washington folks, pronounce this one:

    Natchitoches

    Natch. Totes.

  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    One of my most cherished memories was the time we visited Whakatane in NZ with my extremely conservative relatives, and the absolute gymnastics they went through to avoid saying the name of the town out loud.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I need a little context for that one

    https://www.instagram.com/evansinkworks/
  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    It’s pronounced “fucka-tahneh”

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Oh my goodness that is more than I ever could've hoped for thank you for this gift.

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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    It’s pronounced “fucka-tahneh”

    Should have taken them to Whakapapa!

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