over_clox@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 days agoWhat if people pronounced the word TWO without the silent W?message-squaremessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up149arrow-down1message-squareWhat if people pronounced the word TWO without the silent W?over_clox@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 days agomessage-square50fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLvxferre@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoNo worries - plus the whole thing is damn counter-intuitive, both “sounds fusing together but still conveying two phonemes” and “that sound was analysed as one phoneme, now as another” are kind of weird.
No worries - plus the whole thing is damn counter-intuitive, both “sounds fusing together but still conveying two phonemes” and “that sound was analysed as one phoneme, now as another” are kind of weird.