Aug 27, 2023
sometimes accents are stupid and pronunciations Do Not Generalize
an example of this is vitamin. where i am in america it's pronounced with an "eye" i, so the vi rhymes with "bye." Where I was in the UK it's pronounced with an "ih" I, so the vi is like the vi in "Victoria."
so now if it's taking about the concept of vitamins as a category, i use the US pronunciation. if i'm talking about specific ones, like vitamin c, i use the UK pronunciation.
(usually. if i remember i might swap wildly between the two as i try in vain to remember which pronunciation is correct for the country i'm in)
don't even get me started on the way i use the UK pronunciation of "garage" for everything except for garage sales
#linguistics#pronunciation problems#my stupid mongrel ass accent smh#garage vs garage sale is the one i notice most tho#bc i sounds WRONG to use the UK pronunciation when sale comes after it#mainly bc like. where i was in the UK very few people actually had garages bc all the buildings are old as shit#it's a car boot sale usually#but yeah the vitamin one clocks me in the face occasionally#i hope i have the order right about which pronunciation comes from where#i forget all the time#actually it might also depend on which vitamin#vitamin c is an ih vitamin#vitamin d is more of an eye vitamin#hey brain what's up i just want to talk
