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Pronunciation of "via(s)"
eti:
--- Quote from: TimFox on October 17, 2020, 08:50:45 pm ---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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Nope, I heard it 5x in the last week, from Americans on YouTube, and also my "Google Home" virtual assistant pronounces it this way too, in her American accent.
bson:
--- Quote from: eti on October 16, 2020, 12:01:32 am ---GIF": there's no "discussion" for this, it's an acronym of "Graphics Interchange Format" - the first letter of "GIF" is therefore going to be, phonetically sounded as "Guh" and not "Juh", as it's only a moron who thinks that you'd pronounce "Graphics" as "Jraphics" :palm:
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If you pronounce it as an initialism (it's not an acronym at all) it's "gee eye eff". You would never actually pronounce an acronym like that if it were one; those are always pronounced as words. If you pronounce GIF as a word, it's fine to use jif since the G is followed by one of E, I , Y.
TimFox:
--- Quote from: eti on October 17, 2020, 09:32:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: TimFox on October 17, 2020, 08:50:45 pm ---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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Nope, I heard it 5x in the last week, from Americans on YouTube, and also my "Google Home" virtual assistant pronounces it this way too, in her American accent.
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I have successfully avoided these speakers. How do the English pronounce “multiply” and “multiple”, with an “eye” for an “I”? And how do they pronounce “altimeter”?
eti:
--- Quote from: TimFox on October 17, 2020, 09:47:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: eti on October 17, 2020, 09:32:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: TimFox on October 17, 2020, 08:50:45 pm ---I have lived in the US for lo, these 70 years and have never heard “mul timmitur”. Perhaps you are thinking of “altimeter”?
--- End quote ---
Nope, I heard it 5x in the last week, from Americans on YouTube, and also my "Google Home" virtual assistant pronounces it this way too, in her American accent.
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I have successfully avoided these speakers. How do the English pronounce “multiply” and “multiple”, with an “eye” for an “I”? And how do they pronounce “altimeter”?
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British English (Gold standard, national accent - not "RP" speech but the generic, non-geographic English which is more and more prevalent in England now)
~~ Phonetically ~~:
"Multiply": "Mul tee ply"
"Multiple": "Mul tipple"
"Altimeter": (usually) "Al tee mee tuh"
Anything else, whilst not the end of the world, is just nonsensical when you deconstruct the word and speak it's component words aloud.
TimFox:
Now that that is settled, I would never dictate to citizens of another country how they should pronounce their language.
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