Welcome to the English language

ndnecoal · 5 months

Or, you could follow the guidelines of basic phonics and realize that it's pronounced "Go-tee".

heroinsteve · 5 months

I'm assuming this was made by someone whose primary language wasn't English.

SadGirl_1993 · 5 months

still pronounced it GO-TEE after reading

d13nt_ban_me_again · 5 months

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samathor · 5 months

Relevant

Fenrir_Rendar · 5 months

Oh man, My grandfather was filled with shit like this.

Phydeux. He named his dog that.

postsboobsinreposts · 5 months

If the RE in repost were pronounced B and the PO in repost were OO and the ST in repost were BS you'd get Boobs

edit: NSFW. I can't believe how many people click links that say "boobs" and expect it to be anything else.

cuzseven89 · 5 months

am i an idiot or does the o in women sound like an o when i pronounce it?

beatyour1337 · 5 months

This has been on reddit before

wellthatsjustfine · 5 months

fish hook?

fridgeridoo · 5 months

As someone who had no problems learning English, I approve of this

gblakes · 5 months

Don't you mean the Engloti language?

hitlerwasright · 5 months

A white pigeon is called "Dove"

The past tense of diving is "Dove"

deadwait22 · 5 months

I've been listening to this band since the 90's, and only now do I finally get what the name means...thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSbSSEpX9qM

justarandomguy774 · 5 months

Repost

welchy001 · 5 months

The 'ti' only sounds like 'sh' if it is before 'on' and the 'gh' sounds like 'f' at the end of a word, so basically this is bullshit

dyjoots · 5 months

I bet English is the only language where context can affect the pronunciation of a letter or series of letters.

fluxaxion · 5 months

Repost bot, where are you?

CatLover99 · 5 months

Or... you know... it's the "tion" not the "ti" that sounds like "sh"

Squidmonkej · 5 months

If the "re"-sound in "reverse" is pronounced "re", the "po" in pole is "po", and "st" in "sting" is "st", the word "repost" is pronounced just like what this is.

Edit: oops, didn't check the rest of the comments. Whatever, still a repost.

BananApocalypse · 5 months

By this logic, "Phtholognyrrh" is pronounced "Turner".

"phth" from phthisic makes a "T" sound
"olo" from colonel makes "ur"
"gn" from gnat makes "n"
"yrrh" from myrrh makes "er".

thegiftedape · 5 months

not understanding that trailing or leading characters can effect the pronunciation of the other characters in the word.

Newher · 5 months

My history teacher always used this, and it always upset me. She said that circus should be pronounced "sirsuss" or "kirkuss". She had been teaching for over 30 years so apparently she knew what she was talking about, so the class got mad at me when I challenged her about it.

[deleted] · 5 months

This why the IPA exists.

yea_but_also · 5 months

all the words used as the example aren't routed in one stem of the english language. all those weird pronunciations come from various cultures. some are Greek, some are Latin some are Germanic. we borrow pretty much all of our language from other previous languages. so... putting all the spelling anomalies into one word is just irritating because a.) it's not an actual word so pronunciation would be impossible to figure out. and b.) solar wind.

ara_p · 5 months

Idiot, everyone knows "GHOTI" is only pronounced "FISH" on the second wednesday of February during a leap year. eyeroll

fotoman · 5 months

TIL people pronounce 'women' like whi-men as opposed to wheh-men

UberHard · 5 months

Prounced? That's you, not us.

Sprigglett · 5 months

Its seems to me like it's proneced gh-uh-tee

loriden · 5 months

What species of fish is on that picture?

Anonymousdave69 · 5 months

As someone who spends way too much time on Reddit, please for the love of all the things, find something original to post.

Redsss429 · 5 months

This is a repost, I still have a print screen from a few months ago

egyptsFINEST8 · 5 months

This is possibly the most reposted picture on reddit.

CitizenPremier · 5 months

English started out phonetic but slowly changed to something better. Spelling helps us know the meaning of words. It also helps us to distinguish between homophones. What if we wrote a sentence as "Ai reizt thuh bIldng"--we wouldn't know if you built it or destroyed it!

Lolmomos · 5 months

My teacher said this in class a few weeks ago....

Not sure if redditor... or from the future..

Volsunga · 5 months

The "gh" in "enough" is not pronounced as "f", it's a much softer consonant that requires the teeth barely touching the lower lip rather than being pressed against it like "f". The "o" in "women" is not pronounced as a short "i", it's pronounced as an "ö". The last one makes no sense at all because it's only the "t" that transforms, the "i" is part of the vowel sound. Even then, the sound isn't "sh", it's "tsch". Even assuming any of the first part was not blatantly wrong, it's still trying to use linguistic accommodations for Germanic sounds in the Latin alphabet and trying to apply it to a Greek root word that doesn't need accommodations to fit the sounds into the standard alphabet.

There's a reason phonetic rules exist. If you think English is bad, try French, Spanish, or any Slavic language. East Asian languages like Japanese and Korean are the only languages that lack contextual phonetics. This was probably made by someone who has never tried to learn another language besides English, but still thinks the "English is the hardest language to learn" myth is true.

feor1300 · 5 months

The thing to remember with English is that most of English isn't English. English is, as one guy I knew in College put, "A language which beats up other languages and takes their syntax."

Davetherescueranger · 5 months

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moyvy · 5 months

its not said 'WIMMEN'

preske · 5 months

Wimen? Most people I heard never pronounced it that way, save for the occasional accent.

danhole · 5 months

Who on earth says Women like Wimen?

ylledylle · 5 months

I always learned that it was George Bernard Shaw who said this, but it seems Wikipedia begs to differ. Anyway, it's a very old little nugget of information, but I still think it is quite interesting. Certainly demonstrates the arbitrariness of letters and pronunciation.

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