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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you pronounce origin like the state?

Do you you also say "nay-say" when reading NASA, lol, that logic is flawed.

I'd like to remind everyone that the rules for words amd pronunciation were documented AFTER most words, which is why it's so inconsistent and arbitrary

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The acronym for NASA uses the same sounds as the words that make the acronym. Same as GIF so I'm not sure what your point is. Mine is that GIF stands for graphics interchange format and graphics starts with a hard g therefore GIF should start with a hard g.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/aeronautics

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/agency

Then

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/nasa

They are phonetically different sounds altogether, so your argument is flawed.

Edit: Im fucking dumb, it's administration, not agency. Even so, my point still stands, NASA is phonetically different than the sound in aeronautics.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/administration?q=administration

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well Aeronautics is a hard A, so you got that going for you least :)

Should be naysah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

SCUBA, unless you pronounce underwater as oonderwater.

Also JIF is a separate file format, so GIF should not be pronounced the same.