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| Zbig:
--- Quote from: eti on October 16, 2020, 12:01:32 am ---[..] There's others, but I've no inclination to digress further. --- End quote --- Thank you :phew: |
| GlennSprigg:
I'm sure 'Tooki' will, (ok, may), comment... (I liked my discussions with him in the past!)... To ME, in English, we tend to pronounce words, in the way the originating country pronounces them. For instance, a German woman friend complained to me why the word 'Esplanade' was not sounded like 'Esplanaid', because we have the word 'Lemonade' (sounded 'Lemonaid'). I explained to her that 'Esplanade' is a 'French' word, so we sound it like 'Esplanaard' out of respect for the French word. And there are numerous other examples!! :D |
| mag_therm:
It was always "via" as in viaduct when I was in Australia. How is "router" pronounced? Well, I am so old, I can remember times when we had to rework "vias" by adding thru- leads, soldering on both sides, because the test guys found in a batch, cracks in through hole plating under the pads. |
| eti:
One American "English" (hah) pronunciation which REALLY grates is "Mul TIMMITUR" when an American means "multimeter". Let's deconstruct the word: "Multi meter" - there's no such thing as a "mul" or a "timmitur" - it's a METER that does MULTIple things ;D |
| TimFox:
I have lived in the US for lo, these 70 years and have never heard “mul timmitur”. Perhaps you are thinking of “altimeter”? |
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