If English wasn’t your first language, maybe if you learned English later in life, were there any words that you had a really hard time learning how to pronounce? Do you think that had to do with the sounds made in your first language?

  • gbzm@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    “Lapel” was an interesting find. That and “development” really hammered in the importance of accentuation. I’m still unsure of what I want to do with “schedule”. “Burger” sometimes sounds off when I say it.

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      4 days ago

      Schedule depends on where you’d like to blend into. You’ve got:

      • skedjuhl
      • sked-juul
      • shed-juul
      • shedj-yuu-uhl
      • skedj-yuu-uhl

      Possibly more! I think the ones with two syllables sound most common/least specific to a dialect. SK is more American and SH is more UK.