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[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

I believe that "demon" and "daemon" both share the same pronunciation. "day-mun" is technically incorrect, though still widely accepted.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

no widely accepted pronounciation is incorrect

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

so it "ur mum" and "yo mama"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

archaeology, orthopaedics, paediatrics, encyclopaedia, etc.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Those last 3 aren’t American English

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

so? where do you think English came from?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

English carries a lot of information in vowels, making it concise.

In this case, it’s natural for English speakers to pronounce words with different meanings differently, to disambiguate them.

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