#im also seeing et-aye-oh-in (which sounds dumb) and aye-tawn (which sounds alright :) listed on the wikipedia page | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

whilomm · 5 months ago

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i need a fucking linguist to gve me a list of acceptable pronunciations of this literal nonsense word that was primarily type based rather than spoken based on accepted english rules bc my god there see to be quite a few

#buzzy #linguistics #wait i think theres actually a tag for this #langblr #yeah??#the word is Etaoin of Etaoin Shrdlu fame and my favorite pronunciation ive seen is eht-wahn but also ive only see One Guy #pronounce it like that #im also seeing et-aye-oh-in (which sounds dumb) and aye-tawn (which sounds alright :) listed on the wikipedia page #WHERE is the data on how newspaper editors cursed them out #please i need to know: how do i pronounce this literal nonsense word before i make it my name #theres also an irish name thats spelled similarly (well. most articles are one letter off. i found ONE nameberry thing without a source)#(spelling it étaoin. but idk if thats an Accepted Spelling or just some rando nameberry user making a typo)#(mostly im seeing either étain or eadaoin so similar but not Etaoin)#i like the name a lot maybe but it depends HOW ITS FUCKIN PRONOUNCED #now admittedly since its a nonsense word i could just pronounce it however the hell i want #but like. hey i wanna at least make sure its an accepted spelling based on the rules of english #as dumb as they are

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