Zerlyna@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoThe word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.message-squaremessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1210arrow-down117
arrow-up1193arrow-down1message-squareThe word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.Zerlyna@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square40fedilink
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-28 months agoThat’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)
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)