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Zerlyna@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.

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The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.

Zerlyna@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Phonetically means the way it sounds which would be “fonetik”

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      So pronounced phone-tick?

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        Three syllables, so it would be fo-ne-tik.

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      This is not correct. English is simply not phonetic and therefore it’s impossible to spell any English word phonetically.

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      1 year ago

      funneddic (US)
      funnettic (UK)

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        That’s transposing it how we sound to them, though!

        If the above were pronounced in a baseline kiwi accent the U would just get deeper. The vowel shift goes the other way if I’m to recreate their pronunciation using my own accent:

        Fehr ned ik (US)

        Foe net eck (UK)

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