contentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months agoA Cool Guide: After I said “E as in egg” to customer service I looked up this guidei.redd.itexternal-linkmessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1399arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1381arrow-down1external-linkA Cool Guide: After I said “E as in egg” to customer service I looked up this guidei.redd.itcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square119fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoJig - take the Ji from Jim and add a “g” Oboe - oh bow Tare - take the “T” from top and the “are” from share. Or more annoyingly, switch the P for T in “pear”. Yoke - same as woke, poke, toke, joke but with a Y as the first sound. It’s also pronounced the same as yolk in most accents.
minus-squareajoebyanyothername@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months ago Oboe - oh bow I worry this isn’t the most helpful guide even for someone who speaks English as a first language, is that bow as in bow, or bow?
minus-squareChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agohttps://youtu.be/WZLkcFns8Ks?si=x6hMrwSCVjWK9Teg
minus-squareMicrowavedTea@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoThis was helpful but made me question how I pronounce some of those other words 😅
Jig - take the Ji from Jim and add a “g”
Oboe - oh bow
Tare - take the “T” from top and the “are” from share. Or more annoyingly, switch the P for T in “pear”.
Yoke - same as woke, poke, toke, joke but with a Y as the first sound. It’s also pronounced the same as yolk in most accents.
I worry this isn’t the most helpful guide even for someone who speaks English as a first language, is that bow as in bow, or bow?
https://youtu.be/WZLkcFns8Ks?si=x6hMrwSCVjWK9Teg
This was helpful but made me question how I pronounce some of those other words 😅