#pronunciation

[gingermarshmallow]

How are we pronouncing 'Eiland?'

A-land

I-land

E-land

L-land

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[tw33kyfreaker]

Proper pronunciation of '00s decade, AUGHTS

I'm sick of people who say "two-thousands" (nearly everybody) to refer to the '00s decade. Pronounce it AUGHTS or AUGHTIES. PLEASE.

Same goes for the 1900s, 1800s, etc. ALSO when abbreviating the decade, the apostrophe comes BEFORE the numbers (e.g. '00s, not 00's) Saying 90's makes it possessive, as if said thing belongs to the number 90. When you drop letters/numbers at the beginning of the word, use the apostrophe at the beginning.

GET IT RIGHT FUCKING NOOBS.

AUGHTS. '00s. It might feel awkward to say at first, because you might be like "People might look at me funny if I say aughts instead of two-thousands!" Fuck it. Be brave. It'll catch on. If they ask you to clarify, tell them confidently and matter-of-factly.

You can say "TWENTY-AUGHTS" to distinguish from the "NINETEEN-AUGHTS" (1900s) and "EIGHTEEN-AUGHTS" (1800s). "2000s" basically refers to the entire millennium, 2000-2999.

Then the next decade is pronounced "TENS" ('10s). Don't say "teens" because then you're only referring to the years 2013-2019. That's not a decade.

If you want to take an even more impressive step forward, you can say "twenty-_" for the years 2000-2009, e.g. "twenty-oh-three" for 2003. I conform to mainstream pronunciation in this case, saying "two-thousand-nine" until the '10s where I say "twenty-ten". It's funny how people didn't start referring to the '10s decade in terms of "twenty-_" until the next decade. It wasn't until 2020 when I finally started hearing most people refer to the previous decade as "twenty-eighteen, twenty-nineteen". During the entire decade, people said "two-thousand-thirteen" and "two-thousand-sixteen". Now everybody says "twenty-_". I always said "twenty-_" since the year 2010, because I'm extremely awesome and consistent.

AND also, you're not a '90s kid if you were born in the '90s. People born in the '90s are '90s BABIES. Being in preschool in the '90s doesn't mean you grew up in them. I was born in 1993, and I'm a '00s kid. In order to say you "grew up" in a certain decade, I think those years should include your coming-of-age years, i.e. early adolescence. In order to have been 11-12 in the '90s, you would have had to have been born no later than 1989. Rule of thumb: you grew up in the decade AFTER you were born. It's just that on Tinder, I keep running into these fools who use "'90s kid" as a tag for their profile when it says their age is 28. I remember the late '90s, as I was in preschool/early elementary school, but that's not enough to say I'm a '90s kid. I didn't know anything about '90s pop-culture or any world events at the time. I liked the Backstreet Boys, that was about the only iconic late '90s thing I liked. Well, VHS tapes and compact audio cassettes were things I was pretty into, but those things persisted throughout the '00s.

JUST PRONOUNCE THE YEARS CORRECTLY. DUMBFUCKS.

Maybe someday I finally won't give so much of a shit about everything that most people do...

[mindless-polls]

How do you read (pronounce) the abbreviation “vs.” in your head?

“Versus”

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[dan--q]

Fighting about the correct way to pronounce GIF is so last decade. Let's fight about how to pronounce JPEG. 🔗 Via: https://danq.me/jpeg

[squishoffgrandmas-ex]

How would you pronounce the name ‘Dri’?

Dry

Dree

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[this-is-gncphobia]

[ID: tags reading “#how do you pronounce that #whatever this is cool”. End ID.] (tags from @spammmmmmmmmmm-k)

I generally pronounce it as [d͡ʒiː.ɛn.siː.ˈfoʊ.bi.ə]. Note that I have an American accent, so people from other places might pronounce it differently.

[rosewind2007]

The irony of the fact that “read” [present tense, pronounced reed] and “read” [past tense, pronounced “red”] are written (and therefore read) exactly the same is not lost on me…