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minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish13•edit-21 year ago“Every single other letter is one syllable, can we just pronounce this one ‘wuh’”? “No, it must have THREE!”
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•edit-21 year agoGermans: “Ridiculous! We will pronounce it like ‘vay’”. “Well, that’s a lot…” “…AND ‘Y’ WILL BE ‘OOPSILON’”! ಠ_ಠ
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoThey do, but it’s silly when the vast majority of letters are pronounced with one syllable.
minus-squarekaselinkfedilink2•1 year ago Every single other letter Noooo, you forgot “and z” has two /s
“Every single other letter is one syllable, can we just pronounce this one ‘wuh’”?
“No, it must have THREE!”
English is indeed a funny language.
Germans: “Ridiculous! We will pronounce it like ‘vay’”.
“Well, that’s a lot…”
“…AND ‘Y’ WILL BE ‘OOPSILON’”!
ಠ_ಠ
TIL!
Lots of languages do upsilon, it comes from greek
They do, but it’s silly when the vast majority of letters are pronounced with one syllable.
Noooo, you forgot “and z” has two /s