English is a peculiar language, what with its many... ...th its many letters that are left silent. To make pronunciation even more challenging, which letters are silent i... ...an Matt Colbo addresses the complexity of English pronunciation by imagining an encounter in the woods with an al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/10/31/If-English-Was-Pronounced-Like-Its-Spelled/Or, to be more precise, having a name that takes longer to pronounce correlates with lowered job prospects with the sampled group for this study.Qi Ge (Vassar College) and Stephen Wu (Hamilton College) are economists. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/06/07/Economists-Determine-That-Having-a-Name-Thats-Hard-to-Pronounce-Lowers-Your-Job-Prospects/[https://youtu.be/A8zWWp0akUU] (YouTube link)Engli... ...many more years to master reading it. But what if pronunciation rules were internally consistent? In this video,... ...is video, Aaron Alon gradually applies consistent pronunciation
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/08/15/What-If-English-Were-Phonetically-Consistent/“Bald-more,” “Bawl-mer,” “Bal-more?" | Image of Baltimore, Maryland by dpbirds via FlickrIt's pretty embarrassing to travel to a destination and then pronounce its name incorrectly for the d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/09/From-Balmor-to-Trono-How-to-Pronounce-City-and-State-Names-Like-the-Locals/[https://youtu.be/yDb_WsAt_Z0]YouTube LinkAustralian comedians Josh Hawkins (on YouTube channel and website "Hi Josh") and Rhys Keir present an amusing public service to the non-Australians of the world with their video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/17/How-to-Speak-Like-an-Australian/If you look up Parmesan (cheese) at the Cambridge Dictionaries Online, and click the icon for an audio clip, you’ll find that it is pronounced exactly like the state named after William Penn. In case it gets correc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/20/I-Say-Parmesan-You-Say-Pennsylvania/[http://youtu.be/YwTT8YQFJDQ] (YouTube link)Italia... ...r than I speak Italian, but his struggle with the pronunciation of Worcestershire sauce is priceless. The sauce i... ...t “WOOStershur.” However, the Italian pronunciation of the phonemes as written is quite different. Af... ...ferent. After...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/17/How-to-Pronounce-Worcestershire-Sauce/It may grate on your sensibilities when people mis... ...le who should know better. However, the "correct" pronunciation may have been born of a mispronunciation long ago... ...t time you are tempted to correct someone’s pronunciation
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/13/Pronunciation-Errors-That-Shaped-Our-Language/[http://youtu.be/xc6cfJztR8A] (YouTube link)When you learn new words by reading and not so much by hearing them, it's easy to mispronounce them in your head. Then later, if you hear the word spoken, you might not even re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/01/79-Common-Mispronunciations/[http://youtu.be/wENZmBofwSw] (YouTube link)Or, conversely, how to tell if the person you are speaking with is Dutch. Dutch physicist and mathematician Christiaan Huygens contributed a lot to the science of physics, incl...
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