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?

    • _skj@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Subtle is spelled weird, but rhymes with muddle. Do you also pronounce “mad” and “mud” the same way? With my accent they have the same first vowel sounds as saddle and subtle

    • pipes@sh.itjust.works
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      17 hours ago

      According to the Macmillan they are [ˈsʌt(ə)l] vs [ˈsæd(ə)l], so the vowel changes slightly, but it depends on the speaker; I’m not native but I say saddle with a more open “a”. But they’re otherwise almost identical to me (in the British pronunciation included in the dictionary I hear a “t” both times, in the American one a “d” both times - which is how I say it too)