#21

This is a Pedal Stool.

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#22

Technically speaking, Expresso and Espresso are not homophones. They have a single sound difference (/s/ instead of /ks/) whereas a true set of homophones is pronounced exactly the same. “Expresso” was a pronunciation error which caught on.

#23

thinking there a right way to pronounce words seems more at it to me

constantly get shit from middle class people because my accent basically has three vowel sounds, haha you pronounce her and hair the same.

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#24

There isn’t a right way to pronounce things, but there is a right way to spell them.

Also middle class people have accents too.

#25

why are you telling me things that I obviously already know

#26

If it gets you’re meening across then it’s spelled fine

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#27

A lot of words actually have their current form due to ‘error’ though. If I remember right (which I probably don’t to be fair), when printing came to Europe/England, a lot of the people doing the work were Dutch and basically had to guess at things, or were limited by the technology, and it all entered into popular usage through shitty copies being sold cheaply and quickly. The English language is a frontier of contradictions and inadequate rules at root as well, so the idea of it having anything inviolable about it is mad really. Monks just pulled spellings out their arses basically at the very start of things! There’s a book called Spell It Out which deals with all this stuff - it’s really, really interesting, but I read it ages ago so am probably getting the facts a bit mixed up.

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#28

I didn’t say there’s a right or wrong way to pronounce things, what I meant was it’s not necessarily “posh” to pronounce draw and drawer differently. Could be e.g. Scottish

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#29

Chester Draws

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#30

Where you keep the brars

#31

drawer and draw sound the same unless you’re a try-hard, get over yourselves

mainly you @epimer. get over yourself!

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#32

Struggling to think of any pacific examples

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#33

https://voca.ro/19CQim3yaVWF

#34

fair enough, soz
i misread you replying to bamnan about how to pronounce drawer.

find this srt of shit absolutely draining and dont know why anyone could genuinely give even a tiny shit about any of it but should probably just avoid it.

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#35

Passes the time on the march from cradle to grave, innit

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#36

i’ve tried saying it like ‘drawers’ and i can’t do it, maybe i’m just thick

#37

This is not the same at all but I have a mate who always says ‘brought’ instead of ‘bought’, and it winds me right up!

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#38

I have a pal from Canterbury who does the same. Is it a Kent thing? Let’s compare notes.

#39

That’s a shoe-in for this thread

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#40

Might be more about drawers and draws sounding more similar because of how people say them quickly.

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