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the ragbag: proper pronunciations and how to lose friends →

ragbag:

if you’re a masochistic pedant like me, then one of your favourite activities is using correct pronunciations which seem wrong, waiting for someone to correct you, and then telling that someone how you read in a dictionary once that your pronunciation is the correct one and their way is actually…

I feel so stupid after reading this because of course I pronounce all of these wrong. Ugh.

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   I feel so stupid after reading...because of course I pronounce

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   Don’t do it for them. Do it for yourself.

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    DIF-thong and VUR-tuh-bree threw me, as did KWAY-zy, but i don’t think i’ll ever use that last one as i would just laugh...

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    It’s practically my modus operandi...go off about enforced pronunciation, because...

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    Although I’m not a pedant (had to look up the meaning here), I still do shit like this all the time. It’s like a hobby....

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