Phonetic transcription exists for a reason. The comments here are full of "this is pronounced as this". Which isn't very helpful.
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Well of course it's not very helpful, "this" is quite frankly wrong. Use "this" instead of "this".
Fyoog is just so wrong
*Sad Fyoog noises*
At university a college pronounced 'machine' a bit like 'ma-shayna' (almost a bit Slavic? but totally on accident whatever it was). I loved it so much it stuck with me all these years, basically became headcanon.
I'm going to pronounce colleague as college now thank you.
Fuck, lol, well now I have to as well, since I was so committed.
Then again, I always pronounce whale-cum, cock-a-ccino, etc, what's one more ~~collage~~ college.
I was 12 and believed chaos was 'cha-os' because I'd only ever seen it written.
Fun fact: That's kind of how you pronounce it in German
Had a classmate that thought the same. 20 years later, still amused by how funny we thought that was.
Similar to me, I used to believe chaos was pronounced 'caus'
That's probably closer to the original latin than the current English butchery.
Wait, what is the current English butchery? Non-native speaker here.
Oh, just in general. English is the cronenburg monster of languages and pronunciation. We will steal your words, pronounce them weirdly, use them wrongly, and claim they've always been ours.
Just looking at the word I would definetly read ir as fugu.
Looking at the Wikipedia article, it says it's pronounced fjug. Like what happened to the u and e.
It's usually an entomological thing.
I know fugue in french is said similarly and I wouldn't be surprised if fugue is a french loanword.
Same as what happened to “league”. Forget it, Jack - it’s Englishtown.
I'ma start saying leegu now, especially if it's of legends.
swim away fugu fish, swim away!
Omg it's from 2008. Half my lifetime ago.
Look over there Charlie! It's a magical leoplurodon!
Pretty mainstream. When I was a kid most people struggled to learn how to laugh these things off. These days if you speak on any platform it's a good idea to have some mispronunciations because it catches peoples attention. Even if it's the only thing they'll talk about as long as you're good natured about it you've made progress.
Perhaps an accidental positive of engagement bait
On the one hand ... “Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”
On the other hand.. what else are friends there for?
We were playing some game (don't even remember what) back in 2005 and I read a card that said Lebron James as "Lee-bron James".
My wife will not let this go. It's been almost a full 2 decades, but anytime Lebron is mentioned in any context whatsoever, my wife will give me that look like "haha Lee-bron. You moron."
I’m ruined on “Lee-“ anything. , because I think of Leeroy Jenkins. Now I’m just imagining Lebron just charging into every play with no strategy, shouting “Leeee-bron James!”
I don’t overreact to things I can tell are regional dialects and whatnot. But I recently watched a movie review where the guy pronounced linear as “li-nEAR” and I was the personification of the double take white guy meme. Never heard that one before. And he kept using it throughout, so, somehow, this 30ish year old man has never been corrected. I think everyone that knows him might be playing a cruel joke.
One dnd session, the dm described the room as having flaming braziers. He pronounced them as "brassieres."
We never let him forget.
Oh my DM really leaned into that one. Had us searching for a golden brassiere as part of a ritual we needed to perform. We ended up picking up a rumour that the captain of the guard wears one, so on to the seduction attempt to go find out what she's into and where she hangs out. Play through the whole bit, get the brassiere and then ask what we do next. Well, now we need to burn incense in the brassiere. Now everyone just looks at eachother completely confused. Then the guy sitting next to the DM suddenly perks up and asks to see the module we're running for a sec. Tells the table it says brazier. Confusion dispelled and everyone laughing for days.
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My friend wants to know how you actually pronounce “fugue”. What a dumb friend, right?
It's like... "fyoog"
Don't be mean!
It's actually pronounced more like fo-GOY. Really odd word if you ask me...
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I keep accidentally saying innuendo and having to apologize because they happen in inappropriate situations.
I just can't help when it pops up.
My friend once put the emphasis on the first syllable of pedantic, and correcting him was probably the single greatest joy I’ve ever felt
pee-dantic puh-dantic?
He called me PED-an-tic, with the least stress on the middle syllable. It gave me immense pleasure to be able to say “erm, it’s ped-AN-tic…”
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