switching the pronunciations of baseline & vaseline
and of shallow & swallow
[tΚΓ¦ΙΜ―rΛ Ι£Γ¦Λst]
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linguist & software engineer in Lenapehoking; jewish ancom trans woman.
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in reply to @lifning's post:
ok but I've actually done the first one on accident before. there's a street that's alternately spelled either Base Line or Baseline and when I saw the latter on a sign I thought it was a totally different street and tried to pronounce it phonetically
even more fucked up when v and b are the same consonant sound in some languages
I'm proud to have once concluded a lab meeting presentation with a powerpoint slide asking "why isn't baseline pronounced like vaseline?"