Actually, the pronunciation is different if you're English, and then I'd imagine it'd vary depending upon region. Do any of the Brits know? Do any English accents not drop the "h" in "hotel"?
That's 'Mensa' and not 'menses' [periods]. Come on lads - jokes about teenage girls were the kind of things you were
doing before puberty.
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And just yesterday I learned that it's possible to argue a trivial point past the limits of sanity and into an eerie world of ever mutating assumptions and terms!
Oh, wait, that's PO. Carry on.
Fancy that - I wonder who on earth could have helped you do that?
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I considered joining once and then realized that it's for insecure intellectuals who somehow find chess to be more interesting than a game of Halo 2.
I always think people sound better when they say the pleasant bit and censor the apeshit, but I am an Englishman (that's the indefinite article) which might have something to do with that
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Do any English accents not drop the "h" in "hotel"?
'h' originates from the palate of the mouth - not the front of the mouth like velar sounds ("a", "e", "o", u"). In French, 'h' can cause confusion. It's probably better to ask someone from Hull, England, who would have their own take on 'H' sounds. I speak in standard BBC news English (hopefully not as monotonous) and don't recall treating 'H' as well as a vowel.
The rest of the thread is beyond me!! Just spent the whole day on the road trying to get back home after some fuel explosions sealed off the route back to London.
It's "a university", because the "u" is pronounced "ju".
It's "a unibrow".
It's neither "an university" nor "an unibrow".
It's "an underestimated case", not "a underestimated case".
The "the" pronunciation follows the same rules. Where you would put "an", you would pronounce it "thee".
Why is that I hear and say 'U'niversity not 'Ju'niversity? I can easily accept that I screw up the pronunciation, but that others do as well? However, I agree a university sounds better, regardless.
Why is that I hear and say 'U'niversity not 'Ju'niversity? I can easily accept that I screw up the pronunciation, but that others do as well? However, I agree a university sounds better, regardless.
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Originally posted by Chucker
Um. No.
It says that some dialects drop the vowel entirely wtih consonants. In my particular dialect, we never drop the ee...
Has everyone here put you off Mensa?!
That's 'Mensa' and not 'menses' [periods]. Come on lads - jokes about teenage girls were the kind of things you were
doing before puberty.
And just yesterday I learned that it's possible to argue a trivial point past the limits of sanity and into an eerie world of ever mutating assumptions and terms!
Oh, wait, that's PO. Carry on.
Fancy that - I wonder who on earth could have helped you do that?
I considered joining once and then realized that it's for insecure intellectuals who somehow find chess to be more interesting than a game of Halo 2.
I always think people sound better when they say the pleasant bit and censor the apeshit, but I am an Englishman (that's the indefinite article) which might have something to do with that
Do any English accents not drop the "h" in "hotel"?
www.horlicks.com - "he made a horlicks of it".
"and he showed her a hairy toe"
"this is a hair-brained idea"
"a horse named Cleves married Henry."
"she sounded out a horoscope"
'h' originates from the palate of the mouth - not the front of the mouth like velar sounds ("a", "e", "o", u"). In French, 'h' can cause confusion. It's probably better to ask someone from Hull, England, who would have their own take on 'H' sounds. I speak in standard BBC news English (hopefully not as monotonous) and don't recall treating 'H' as well as a vowel.
The rest of the thread is beyond me!! Just spent the whole day on the road trying to get back home after some fuel explosions sealed off the route back to London.
Originally posted by Justin
Just spent the whole day on the road trying to get back home after some fuel explosions sealed off the route back to London.
I heard about that. Damn.
Originally posted by Chucker
The "the" pronunciation follows the same rules. Where you would put "an", you would pronounce it "thee".
You are the first person I have met who knew that the/"thee" follows the same rule as a/an.
The only reason I know is that I'm OLD!
[Didn't say there wasn't anyone else. Just said I hadn't met one.]
Thanks!
Originally posted by Chucker
Correct; I was going to point this out.
It's "a university", because the "u" is pronounced "ju".
It's "a unibrow".
It's neither "an university" nor "an unibrow".
It's "an underestimated case", not "a underestimated case".
The "the" pronunciation follows the same rules. Where you would put "an", you would pronounce it "thee".
Why is that I hear and say 'U'niversity not 'Ju'niversity? I can easily accept that I screw up the pronunciation, but that others do as well? However, I agree a university sounds better, regardless.
Originally posted by Carson O'Genic
Why is that I hear and say 'U'niversity not 'Ju'niversity? I can easily accept that I screw up the pronunciation, but that others do as well? However, I agree a university sounds better, regardless.
Replace the 'j' with the consonant 'y'.
It is a yellow bus.
It is a yuniversity.
It would be an un-iversity.