Sounds cool! Funny thing : the first thing I was greeted with was "How to pronounce coup de grâce in English (1 out of 23)". Being French, I do find that a little hard to swallow :D
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
When english results are split in engish it is usually american english vs british english (which is often also spoken in australia and india) I can't say if that is the case here, but that is what I would suspect. As a british person I have usually heard it and used it as 'neesh'
It only seems to be some Americans pronounce it nitch, so maybe regional there, though I couldn't guess where or which is most common. Here in the UK essentially always neesh. It is from French after all. Edit: American audiobooks on the other hand seem to go 100% with nitch for some unexplainable reason.
>It is from French after all.
And yet the British say "filet" with a hard 't'? I have never heard anything but the French pronunciation in the US.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is the short u 'tupple' wrong despite it's popularity because if so I've been lying to people...
You should use 'tupple' when referring to odd-length tuples, and 'toople' when referring to even-length tuples. That is obviously the only sane compromise.
Any ideas for 'trie'?
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
It only seems to be some Americans pronounce it nitch, so maybe regional there, though I couldn't guess where or which is most common. Here in the UK essentially always neesh. It is from French after all. Edit: American audiobooks on the other hand seem to go 100% with nitch for some unexplainable reason.
>It is from French after all. And yet the British say "filet" with a hard 't'? I have never heard anything but the French pronunciation in the US.
That's about 50:50 - probably along regional lines.
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#65I typed in "what is my name?" and it took me to a video of a southern preacher's sermon. lol
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#66hehe, I had to try the words I know are pronounced wrong. "Paella" it's pronounced paeya, not payeya. Also half the population says ecsetera instead of etcetera
Only about 1 in 8 speakers uses incorrect "excetera" pronunciation: https://youglish.com/search/%22et%20cetera%22/all ? Even 12% -- is far too many for my taste. But at least I can use "et cetera" pronunciation as a quick "literacy level" test.
It's an extremely common deformation I think, "excetera" is also a very common pronunciation in French. I really doubt it's heavily tied to literacy level at any level, it's probably more comfortable to pronounce.
Remember that basically every word of your language (regardless of the language) was probably at some point considered some low-class corruption of the "proper" language.
When it comes to English in particular look at the mess that's English spelling and the massive phonetic shifts it underwent during the past centuries, it seems a bit silly to single out "excetera" as the one bad pronunciation used by illiterate people.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
It only seems to be some Americans pronounce it nitch, so maybe regional there, though I couldn't guess where or which is most common. Here in the UK essentially always neesh. It is from French after all. Edit: American audiobooks on the other hand seem to go 100% with nitch for some unexplainable reason.
> It is from French after all. This is funny to me because I often see people on the internet mentioning how strange it is that Americans leave off the 'h' when pronouncing 'herb'.
Wait, some people pronounce herb with the 'h' not silent?
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#68Awesome site! This is infinitely more useful than any other pronunciation site I've seen. Two questions: I'm guessing the site uses the YouTube API to build a database from video captions, but which videos does it pull from? All of them or a subset? Querying the word "the" yields about 12 million results which seems low to me. Also, is there any way to prevent the site from modifying my YouTube watch history? I notic…
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
It only seems to be some Americans pronounce it nitch, so maybe regional there, though I couldn't guess where or which is most common. Here in the UK essentially always neesh. It is from French after all. Edit: American audiobooks on the other hand seem to go 100% with nitch for some unexplainable reason.
> It is from French after all. This is funny to me because I often see people on the internet mentioning how strange it is that Americans leave off the 'h' when pronouncing 'herb'.
It is fairly unusual for American not to Anglicise pronunciations so it seems to stand as odd one out. Then again you kept the original "correct" pronunciation of herb - it was British English that changed for some reason.
Even the poshest Brit will put the H in herb now.
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#70Unless you want to know how to say "Notre Dame". https://youglish.com/search/notre%20dame/all ?
You can switch to French.