#Letter R Pronunciation

[susanhorak]

#spoken_english #تعلم #learn_english #تعلم_الانجليزية تعلم الإنجليزية - انطق R صح - Letter R Pronunciation اللغة في الأصل هي وسيلة للتواصل بين البشر، التواصل في المقام الأول يتم عبر التحدث والاستماع قبل أن يكون عبر الكتابة والقراءة�� فما الفائدة عندما تعرف الكثير من القواعد وتحفظ الكثير من الكلمات الانجليزية (التي ربما يكون بعضها بنطق خاطئ) ما الفائدة في ذلك وأنت لن تتمكن من الخروج بهذه اللغة إلى العالم والتواصل مع البشر عن طريقها، قد تفيدك في قراءة بعض المقالات وفي تحصيل بعض العلم لكنها لن تكون يوماً ما لغة تواصل فعالة.

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يمكنك الاستفادة من الدروس التالية انطق R صح - Letter R Pronunciation https://youtu.be/sYvI3Uk_EAE

رد الفعل بالانجلش - Reaction in English https://youtu.be/qvJKA3cewZY

استخدام الصفات - adjective words https://youtu.be/x7gfkydHh4k

رد الفعل للمواقف الحزينه - sadness reaction https://youtu.be/fD_26MLsPiY #مواقع_تعليم_انجليزي #برامج_تعليم_انجليزي #تعلم_اللغة_الانجليزية #تعلم #spoken_english #english_speaking_course_online #spoken_english_in_telugu #نهي_طلبة , Noha Tolba

[elftwink]

been reading fanfiction at the front counter at work as of late because our fiction selection that's available to read online is sparse, there's only so much academic non-fiction a man can read especially when he's just blindly in the catalogue looking up random keywords in the hope of finding something even mildly interesting, and i haven't been able to get out to my local library to fix my library card that doesn't let me log in and possibly has no associated email to access their ebook collections. and i can't do anything at the front desk that doesn't look work-related so i've been downloading pdfs of fics and emailing them to myself to pass the yawning void of hours between the 3 whole patrons who are there during the semester break.

anyway im telling you all this because i sent a few to myself and all but one (1) fic i was like oh my GOD he Would Not Fucking Say That. but i had nothing else to do not even work related tasks so i read them anyway. woe is me. i will learn nothing from this and do the exact same thing tomorrow probably

[the-busy-ghost]

No disrespect to the particular English accent that birthed this atrocity, we all have our own sins to atone for, but as a Scot I’m tempted to accuse google of perpetrating a hate crime by describing this monstrous mispronunciation as the correct “British” one

[kod-lyoko]

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[yeoldenews]

While we’re on the subject of names, is there an explanation for how traditional nicknames came about that are seemingly unrelated to, or have little in common with, the original name?

ie- John/Jack, Richard/Dick, Henry/Harry/Hank, Charles/Chuck, Margaret/Peggy/Daisy, Sarah/Sally, Mary/Molly, Anne/Nan, etc

I am actually over a week into researching a huge follow-up post (probably more than one if I’m being honest) about the history of nickname usage, so I will be going into this in much, much more detail at a hopefully not-so-later date - if I have not lost my mind. (Two days ago I spent three hours chasing down a source lead that turned out to be a typographical error from 1727 that was then quoted in source after source for the next 150 years.)

As a preview though, here’s some info about the names you mentioned:

The origins of a good portion of common English nicknames come down to the simple fact that people really, really like rhyming things. Will 🠞Bill, Rob🠞Bob, Rick🠞Dick, Meg🠞Peg.

It may seem like a weird reason, but how many of you have known an Anna/Hannah-Banana? I exclusively refer to my Mom’s cat as Toes even though her name is Moe (Moesie-Toesies 🠞 Toesies 🠞 Toes).

Jack likely evolved from the use of the Middle English diminutive suffix “-chen” - pronounced (and often spelled) “-kyn” or “kin”. The use of -chen as a diminutive suffix still endures in modern German - as in “liebchen” = sweetheart (lieb “love” + -chen).

John (Jan) 🠞 Jankin 🠞 Jackin 🠞 Jack.

Hank was also originally a nickname for John from the same source. I and J were not distinct letters in English until the 17th Century. “Iankin” would have been nearly indistinguishable in pronunciation from “Hankin” due to H-dropping. It’s believed to have switched over to being a nickname for Henry in early Colonial America due to the English being exposed to the Dutch nickname for Henrik - “Henk”.

Harry is thought to be a remnant of how Henry was pronounced up until the early modern era. The name was introduced to England during the Norman conquest as the French Henri (On-REE). The already muted nasal n was dropped in the English pronunciation. With a lack of standardized spelling, the two names were used interchangeably in records throughout the middle ages. So all the early English King Henrys would have written their name Henry and pronounced it Harry.

Sally and Molly likely developed simply because little kids can’t say R’s or L’s. Mary 🠞 Mawy 🠞 Molly. Sary 🠞 Sawy 🠞 Sally.

Daisy became a nickname for Margaret because in French garden daisies are called marguerites.

Nan for Anne is an example of a very cool linguistic process called rebracketing, where two words that are often said/written together transfer letters/morphemes over time. The English use of “an” instead of “a” before words beginning with vowels is a common cause of rebracketing. For example: the Middle English “an eute” became “a newt”, and “a napron” became “an apron”. In the case of nicknames the use of the archaic possessive “mine” is often the culprit. “Mine Anne” over time became “My Nan” as “mine” fell out of use. Ned and Nell have the same origin.

Oddly enough the word “nickname” is itself a result of rebracketing, from the Middle English “an eke (meaning additional) name”.

I realized earlier this week that my cat (Toe’s sister) also has a rebracketing nickname. Her name is Mina, but I call her Nom Nom - formed by me being very annoying and saying her name a bunch of time in a row - miNAMiNAMiNAM.

Chuck is a very modern (20th century) nickname which I’ll have to get back to you on as I started my research in the 16th century and am only up to the 1810s so far lol.

[official-linguistics-post]

Is there a term for how some letters sound rounded(?) in some accents? For example, my grandparents pronounce "wash" kind of like "worsh." I wasn't sure if it's considered a drawl because the word doesn't sound longer to me

that's intrusive R or epenthetic R! it's one example of a process called epenthesis which involves adding sounds to a word's pronunciation.

[otaku553]

So apparently I have gone off the other end of mispronouncing anime names, because I was reading Tage like Target if you removed the r and the second t. So タゲ　(or たげ) .

I just find it kind of funny, because there was a time where I used to read Hokage as Hoka-je and now it’s happened again but in reverse. (Why does English use g as a second j sometimes?)

Nice pun, though!

Haha that’s hilarious!

I did include his name and epithet in Japanese on the reference sheet but here it is again :) I’ll make a proper wanted poster at some point at a later date.

Fun fact, when coming up with his name, I did actually search up Tage as a name and how it might be pronounced and it does seem to actually be an existing name. You can look up pronunciation videos but it’s pronounced with the hard g like you think! In this case though, to better fit the pun, I have it pronounced as written here.

Fun fact 2! When brainstorming names, one of my ideas was Soba, both as a rearrangement of the letters in his name and as a joke on how Sabo’s favorite food before amnesia was ramen. This was scrapped pretty quickly because we thought it might be too obvious.

[chuuyaa-nakaharaa]

Chuuya runs his hands through Dazai's hair.

*rolling on the floor, groaning.*

— @dazaii-osamuu

Not again.. Get up you idiot!

[ilsolefiesta]

random astrological jam

just some absolutely random thoughts I had today while working:

♥ the strongest "mothering mother" I've ever seen is the 4th house Leo Sun with Cancer IC. we all know how lionesses protect their cubs. this quality goes to extremes when one of the most family-oriented signs rules the family house... my aunt has this placement, and she is so passionately devoted to our family. sometimes, she gives me the vibes of Dominic Toretto. we also laugh about how she can change the subject of literally any conversation to her daughter. - the weather is getting worse. - my daughter once became ill during such weather... - wow, his sport skills are amazing. - you know, my daughter used to be a captain of baseball team when she studied at school. - I think there's something wrong with my stomach. - you even have no idea what terrible diarrhea my daughter once had. (her daughter is around 30 already...)

♥ people with strong mutable placements, how often do people tell you that you seem taller than you actually are? or they thought that you were in fact taller than you are?

♥ having Cancer ASC and/or the Moon in the 1st house, along with Scorpio Sun, really creates an "angel in disguise" impression. people with these placements look SO DAMN innocent but then you begin to know them better...

♥ it’s so funny how strong Leo placements can be so obvious in their “godly” self-perception, to the point where you can't even be angry with them. my friend has a Leo stellium (Sun, Mars, Mercury). it was my birthday, so we were planning to have a party at a restaurant. she was the only one who arrived late, and it took her more than 30 minutes after the planned time. and the first thing she said when she arrived wasn’t “happy birthday” or “sorry for being late” etc. it literally was:

- just look at me. I look so damn gorgeous today, don’t you think so?

I thought I was going to die laughing.

♥ aspects of Mercury with Uranus/Chiron can make a person having a rhotacism or some other difficulties with pronunciation. for example, my former classmate and I both struggle with the letter "R" in our speech. however, my Mercury and Uranus form a trine, so people usually don't even notice it unless they are trying to listen for it intentionally. on the contrary, my classmate had a square between them. sometimes it was really hard for people to understand her.

♥ I believe that even though Capricorn ASC people may have other strong placements, they look their best wearing minimalistic clothes. like they are so self-sufficient that the rule "the simpler, the better" works for them 100% of the time.

♥ maybe it has another name in English or I misspelled it somehow (please let me know if you know what it's called). but I haven't seen any articles about Doryphory/Doryphoros and the Charioteer of the Sun in English. however, it's very popular among post-Soviet astrologers.

if you don't know, here's the idea: the Sun is the King, and Doryphory is its supportive power, like a squire. it's the planet that comes before the Sun. check it out. it can, together with the Ascendant, reveal the first impression from you. on the other hand, the planet after the Sun - the Charioteer - can show what you're remembered for in the end.

for example, my Sun is in the 1st house and the first planet behind (clockwise) is my 12th house Mars. I’m always told that I look like self-collected, confident go-getter at first glance. however, Mercury which goes after Sun usually leaves people feeling that I am overthinking and a little nervous. my sister’s Doryphory is Gemini Mercury (harshly squared, however). sometimes it really seems challenging for her to stop talking. she looks like such a chatterbox. however, people usually remember her for her good looks. her Sun is followed by Venus. as for my grandma, her Doryphory is Moon and the Charioteer is Mercury. she is the most prominent example of someone who often says or does something emotionally and then thinks about whether it was the right thing to do or not. Thank you for reading! Have a nice day! Picture credits: Pinterest

[official-wales]

Any advice for first language English speakers trying to learn Welsh?

sacrifice yourself to y ddraig goch and ascend into her kingdom of fire

Diolch yn fawr iawn! I'm a second language South Walian myself, so my Welsh is gonna be different to a first language North Walian, for example. But, we roll with it.

Start small

I don't know if you're in Wales, or elsewhere, but just introducing little Welsh phrases is a good place to start, like greetings. Don't worry about making mistakes, or being misunderstood. Everyone will know what you mean, and most people will be pleased you're using Welsh!

Hello - Shwmae/Helo

Good bye - Hwyl fawr

How are you? - Sut dych chi? (very formal), Sut wyt ti? (less formal)

Thank you (very much) - Diolch (yn fawr)

Please - O's gwelwch yn dda

Good morning - Bore da

Good afternoon - Prynhawn da

Good night - Nos da

Welcome - Croeso

If you ARE in Wales, look out for people wearing little orange speech mark badges in public places, like shops. These mean they are fluent, or learning Welsh, and will be happy to talk with you in the language.

2. Understanding pronunciation

Sometimes English speakers get tripped up by Welsh spelling, especially when mutations are involved. You've probably heard the old "it's just a keyboard smash language!", when honestly Welsh makes more sense than English (every letter is pronounced the same every time, unlike English, where it's a lottery).

Here's some major-ish differences to the English alphabet:

a - "ah" (apple)

ch - like a gutteral cat hiss? Or like you're trying to get phlegm out of the back of your throat.

dd - "th" (these)

e - "eh" (elephant)

f - "v" (velcro)

ff - "f" (fantastic)

i - "ee" (queen)

ll - like you're blowing air out the side of your tongue, while the tip is just behind your teeth. May take some practice, but it's a VERY common sound

r - roll that letter, baby. like an Italian

rh - like a breathy r. Use your teeth

u - "ih" (hit)

w - "ooh" (spoon)

y - "uh" (under) or sometimes "ih" (inside)

(there is no j, k, q or v in the Welsh alphabet. But that doesn't stop some anglicised words like "jam")

3. Mutations

Mutations are ways Welsh words change, depending on what comes before or after them. There are loads of mutations, but you can be understood without using them/forgetting them, so don't worry too much. They're quite easy to learn too.

For example:

Diflas - Boring

Mae Owen yn ddiflas - Owen is boring

The 'd' changes to a 'dd'. Because mutations. Don't ask me why.

Here's a guide to mutations that can explain it better than I can.

4. Find some sick Welsh media

Maybe you're into podcasts, or soap operas, or rock music, or food blogs, or children's books, or Eisteddfod poetry, or-

HERE'S SOME HANDPICKED STUFF FROM YOURS TRULY:

Hansh on Twitter, YouTube and iPlayer - comedy and more platform. Quite random.

Adwaith - Welsh-language, all-female, indie rock band from Carmarthenshire. Won the Welsh Music Prize in 2022.

Duolingo Welsh course - Recently, Duolingo announced they were going to stop updating the course, which led to some BIG OUTCRIES in Welsh news. Worth looking in to.

Learn Welsh - resources, schemes, audiobooks and more to help people learn Welsh in a way that suits them. 16-25 year olds can learn for free. You can book face to face lessons, online self-learning, learn with other learners, search courses near you and loads of other stuff. Good to explore.

Ap Treiglo and Ap Geiriadur - free apps to help with mutations and vocabulary. Ap Geiriadur is designed by Bangor University.

Siarad - Voluntary scheme to help people increase their confidence using Welsh. You're matched with a fluent Welsh speaker, and can go through three levels of proficiency. You arrange to meet up, or learn online - whatever suits you!

S4C - The Welsh language broadcasting service. Has everything: news, Gogglebocs Cymru, drama, documentaries, you name it.

Doctor Cymraeg - really successful tiktok and instagram account. Teaches about bitesized Welsh language facts, vocabulary and funny things. Also always films them when out on a walk, with the expression of a high school teacher who's just watched his pupils try and fail to make the leaning tower of pisa out of gluesticks. Classic.

5. TYMBLR

There are LOADS of people learning Welsh on here for the first time, and interacting with them is one of the best ways to get into the language online. #dysgu cymraeg is a good tag.

Sorry for the long post, but ta da! I am by no means an expert, but with your help anon, we can get everyone speaking Welsh by nightfall. The plan is in motion. Godspeed.

[outlawruben]

I often think about Young Arthur/John experiencing a culture shock when receiving positive feedback from Hosea/Dutch when they do something well.

Like for instance; Arthur learns how to shoot a bottle from a distance, and he finally hits it dead on.

Hosea, earnestly impressed with the kid, compliments him wholeheartedly, and seeming a little more giddy this time, runs to grab another bottle.

Arthur, not really used to this kind of affection, sheepishly looks down at the gun in his hand with a small smile.

Or for John; I can imagine him and Dutch practicing how to write his name.

“J O H N M A R S T O N” he reads out every letter as he writes it. Dutch, impressed that he got it on the first try today, happily congratulates him. “Can you read it?” He asks. And John sounds out the letters with perfection, and recites everything he’s learned about pronunciation rules, as he reads it. To which Dutch is VERY impressed.

John embarrassed about all the praise, asks to move on with the lesson, which Dutch is happy to do. However John thinks about the interaction for the rest of the afternoon.

[tealviscaria]

Ooh, a very nice guess!!

We've got 8 one-letter words: a, i, k, o, s, u, v, z. (Again, I'm not counting interjections, abbreviations and so on.)

And yes, you're absolutely right! "A" and "i" are conjuctions which mean "and", "v" means "in" and "s" means "with". The other ones are "k" which roughly corresponds to "to", "o" = "about", "u" = "at" and "z" = "from". (Every translation is approximate of course, given that they're prepositions.)

I'm actually not sure what length of words in Czech is the most common but I found this website that says the average length of a word is 5.54 in a text and 8.11 in a dictionary. (I'm not exactly sure what data they worked with but it seems reliable enough.) So I guess we're leaning more towards the longer ones, but not very much. Also, that same website includes the frequency of letters and unsurprisingly, "q" is the lowest (obviously that would be quite different in French :D)

Bonsoir, I've got a shower thought (literally) for you! I've realized that in French, there are only 3 one-letter words: a, à, y.

(I'm not taking into account abbrevations, contractions, slang (like r), and dialect variations. Also, this could be debatable, but I'm not counting t (as in "va-t-il") and ô bc I'm a hater.)

Can you guess how many one-letter words there are in Czech? :D (Bonus points if you can guess which ones <3)

woa only 3 one-letter words?? funny funfact it is... but i do believe we love longer words soooo not too surprising =)

as for in czech mmmm. i have seen your post last time about the different "and" words so there are two at least (a and uh i don't remember the other one? i maybe). and with my Russian knowledge, i had noticed the czech language has one-letter prepositions for certain declensions (so, likewise russian, it maybe has a v or b to introduce locations and the equivalent of c in russian). anywho i'd guess there's like 10ish one-letter words in czech =D

[olderthannetfic]

Here’s a petty whine im sure no ones whined about recently 🦅

I hate when i’m reading a fic about an american character(s) and all of a sudden they’re producing a whole fn tea service, and calling people “mate”. He wouldn’t be eating “biscuits” but if he was they would be slathered in butter and honey and dipped in grits.

So idk what brit needs to hear this atm but those are called cookies and we eat them with milk and the letter r isn’t in the word ass like nowhere its nowhere in that word and changing the spelling to reflect that god awful pronunciation doesn’t legitimize it.

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[peaceloveandhistory]

Fun fact: The pronunciation of American English is closer to the pronunciation in William Shakespeare's time (1564-1616) than in British English. Today's American accent is more closely related to what Shakespeare heard while he wrote. People generally assume that Shakespeare's English is related to British English, but in Early Modern English the letter "r" is still pronounced. During the 18th century the "r" was dropped from pronunciation when it was the last syllable of a word in southern British English. American English froze in how we pronounce letters, which is why we sound more like Shakespeare than British English.

[yuurei20]

Cater's Name

If you have ever wondered why Cater’s name is being pronounced “Keito” in the game, while Ace’s seiyuu Yamashita pronounced it as “Kate” when speaking in English at Anime Expo 2023, it is because Cater, Keito and Kate are all ケイト in Japanese.

Unlike the English language, which can create any of a number of different sounds with the same letters, Japanese is a phonetic language: what you see is what you get.

Much like how English has foreign loan words like “rendezvous” and “tsunami,” Japanese also has foreign loan words from languages like German, French, English, and more.

When these words are adopted into Japanese they must adapt to the katakana alphabet which is a specific writing system for foreign loan words.

This tends to impact the way that the words are pronounced, which is common in any language that adopts loan words, like how the Japanese word “karate” can be pronounced “kur-ah-tee” in the US.

Some sounds don’t exist in Japanese, like “R” and “L.” As a result, certain compromises must be made to pronunciation with the adoption of new words.

Words that end in “R” are often changed to end in an “ah” sound, such as “Silver” becoming “Sil-bah.” (The “sih” sound in “Silver” also does not really exist, which is why it is being pronounced like, “she.”)

This means that “Cater” would technically be pronounced “Keita,” but (like all languages), there are no hard rules to katakana (ex: encore, another r-ending word like Silver, is pronounced “ahn-coh-ru” rather than “en-coh-rah”).

This is because “keito” is specifically the pronunciation of the gambling term, “cater.”

While outdated, “Ace,” “Deuce,” “Trey,” “Cater,” “Cinq” and “Sice” are all actual gambling terms, used for both cards and dice.

When these terms were imported to Japan, “cater” was assigned the pronunciation keito instead of keita, possibly because it was based on the pronunciation by English speakers rather than its spelling.

Hence the Japanese-language pronunciation of Cater’s name.

But that’s not all!

Another quirk of adopting words into Japanese is that all words must end with “a,” “i,” “u,” “e,” “o” or “n.”

This is why Riddle’s and Deuce’s names sound like they end in “u,” while Jade’s and Floyd’s names sound like they end in “o."

Thanks to various celebrities, the average Japanese-language speaker is more familiar with the first name “Kate” than we are with the outdated gambling term “cater,” and “Kate” is also pronounced ケイト (Keito) in Japan.

This is all explained explicitly in official Twisted Wonderland fan book, which says, “In English, this name is usually spelled as ‘Cate’ or ‘Kate,’ but Cater’s name is different, as it is referring to the number ���4’ in card game terminology.”

From a Japanese-speaker’s perspective Cater’s name may look like a misspelling of the name “Kate,” which is a misunderstanding that this explanation in the fan book is possibly trying to clear up.

If you were wondering why Ace’s voice actor said “Kate” during the Anime Expo 2023 panel, that is why! He pronounces Cater as “Keito” in Japanese, but he was speaking in English, and he knows that “Keito” is Japanese for the English name “Kate,” so he adapted accordingly.

(The archived livestream of the Twisted Wonderland panel at Anime Expo 2023 is on Aniplex USA's YouTube channel, and this moment can be seen here!)

So what should you use when talking about Cater?

Language is all about communication, so if the person you’re talking to speaks English, “Cater” is the way to go.

But if you ever find yourself talking to Ace's VA Yamashita Seiichiro and say “Cater,” he might not understand who you mean, and you might want to go with “Keito” or “Kate” instead.

[catt-nuevenor]

Minor Change to M

Minor change to get you all informed on concerning M.

Previously, the gender naming splits on M went like this:

Male - Marrin

Female - Marryn

Nonbinary - Marren

All of this was put in place before I really got to grips with how I was going to tackle names and language in the story.

Now that I do know a little bit more of what I'm actually doing, these names have had to undergo some changes:

Male - Marren

Female - Merrá

Nonbinary - Marrin

Sorry for the confusion.

Beyond names, M remains largely as they were, at least up to the point that you all got to get to know them.

If you want a guide on how these are pronounced, I recommend having a squint at Old English Pronunciation Guide.

Vowel sounds have shifted somewhat in the past 1000+ years (go figure), but not too much.

Dashed accents over letters means a longer sound, there's some debate on whether r's were rolled or not, so roll em if you can, don't worry if you can't, and for the true nerds among you, emphasis is on the first syllable.