i'm sure it's just a dialect difference, but i'm fascinated by the distinction between pronouncing Crusoe with two syllables vs. with three. kə-ru-soe vs CRU-soe
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i'm sure it's just a dialect difference, but i'm fascinated by the distinction between pronouncing Crusoe with two syllables vs. with three. kə-ru-soe vs CRU-soe
this is such a weird phenomenon! I grew up exclusively hearing 3 syllables, which is surely not the original intention, but it took me a long while to notice that it was strange... I wonder if it has something to do with analogy with Enrico Caruso; thus i would hypothesize that you would hear 3 syllables more often in areas that had a lot of Italian immigrants and classical music fandom in the early 20th century when he was most popular (and Boston, where I grew up, had both)
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Maybe it's because I'm a francophone, or maybe it's because I can't pronounce, but in my head it's cru-zo-hey
oooh! another alternative. for my part i can't help pronouncing "achilles" in the more francophone "ä'shīl"