xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

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Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

When I hear someone from that city say their city's name, it sounds like it should be spelled "Trono."

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Shibboleths are amazing! Calgary is almost universally pronounced "Cal-Gary" by non-locals, locals say "Calgree"

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