Natalie

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Natalie @nex311/30/2022, 1:48 AM

Wil Lee @kourge

@tesseralis11/18/2022, 5:09 AM

so in cohost we can use furigana in english

Worcestershire (WOOS-ter-sher) sauce

Wil Lee @kourge11/18/2022, 5:16 AM

why english spelling is so deranged

forecastle ( fo'c's'le )

Natalie @nex311/30/2022, 1:48 AM

petition to officially change the spelling of "voxel" to "vorecastle"

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in reply to @tesseralis's post:

gwen @gwenverbsnouns11/30/2022, 3:49 AM

this is actually great because I've learned almost all my vocab from reading and I can't pronounce anything properly x)

in reply to @kourge's post:

@tesseralis11/18/2022, 6:04 AM

wil what the fuck

Wil Lee @kourge11/18/2022, 6:09 AM

English spelling is to Latin as Japanese orthography is to Chinese

Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedOtter11/30/2022, 2:05 AM

...So, bonus fun fuct, in the actual honest-to-goodness British pronunciation of "Worcestershire", the -shire is silent

WOOS-ter.

Leolin (list of names in bio)@FaeAlchemist11/30/2022, 12:00 PM

I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Worcester, the county town and namesake of Worcestershire.

Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedOtter11/30/2022, 12:05 PM

...It is very possible, and also that I should get more sleep

Currently doubting every sense-memory I have of ever hearing anyone talk about the damn sauce

Leolin (list of names in bio)@FaeAlchemist11/30/2022, 12:21 PM

Oh, I think some people do call the sauce Wooster sauce, but the place is always(? often at least?) Woostesher, because clipping that introduces ambiguity.

Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedOtter11/30/2022, 12:53 PM

Aye! Though my sleep-dep brain ks now deep in "OH NO WHAT EVEN IS ANYTHING"

jckarter @jckarter11/30/2022, 5:09 PM

There are no phoneticists in forecastles

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