Board 8 > I just realized that iron is pronounced i-urn

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what the ****

....Yeah, now that I think about it that is odd.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathesis_%28linguistics%29

that is the official name for weird pronunciations like that apparently

"I think it would be IRONIC if we were all made of IRON"

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Wait.

People actually didn't know it's pronounced I-urn?

Wth?

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i knew it was, it just never occurred to me how weird it was compared to the spelling until now

From: YetAnothrShadow | #010
Wait.

People actually didn't know it's pronounced I-urn?

Wth?

No it's more that its pronunciation makes no sense.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathesis_%28linguistics%29

I'm confused. With the exception of 'iron', I still pronounce all those examples as they are written on the left..

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Tom Bombadil posted...
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Wait, how do you pronounce this word? Because I pronounce it exactly as spelled.

From: _Yonex_ | #013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathesis_%28linguistics%29

I'm confused. With the exception of 'iron', I still pronounce all those examples as they are written on the left..

Yeah same. There are people that say relevant as revelant? WTF?

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>_>. I have also never head calvary, interduce or purty in my life.

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I pronounce it "Iron"

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"Comfterble" I've heard and say a lot myself, but almost all of the rest of those are seriously weird.

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i say interduce/introduce interchangeably. surprised you've never heard purty though - you should have at least heard it comically/sarcastically.

pretty %u2192 purty /%u02C8p%u0259rti/

WTF

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I've always wondered about i-ern. There are some things we say oddly that I at least understand where it comes from, whether it's from another language, or out of pure laziness. (I happen to work in a liberry.) But iern never made sense to me. And I can't even force myself to say i-run. Ironic, np, but not i-run.

Maybe I should just resort to calling it ferrum.

LobsterJelly posted...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathesis_%28linguistics%29

that is the official name for weird pronunciations like that apparently

Crap, they took the word metathesis. Now I don't know what to call the thesis I'm writing about theses.

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This is the single biggest flaw with the English language.

No, not that words change pronunciation over time - but rather that they refuse to change the spelling to reflect the changes.

In Norway, we have an official bureau that constantly revises how our language is written, to make sure words are always spelled the way they're pronounced. This should be standard for all languages to be honest.

I guess it's harder to change a world language like English when its writing is so deeply integrated in the minds of people everywhere, but there really is no excuse for having, for instance, each vowel be pronounced in 6 different ways depending on the word, with absolutely no indication of when to use each pronunciation. Wheat, sweat, steak, ear. Same letters, 4 completely different wovel sounds. W T F.

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From: Takfloyd_mkII__ | #024
In Norway, we have an official bureau that constantly revises how our language is written, to make sure words are always spelled the way they're pronounced.

This sounds annoying, to be honest. Constantly having to rethink how you spell words because people start pronouncing them differently seems impractical; people would probably wouldn't bother to learn the new spellings, and we'd have different people spelling the same word different ways.

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See the reason is

it sounds silly to say

"TASTE MY I-RON, FOUL HESSIAN!"

i-ern just flows better

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