Zerlyna@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoThe word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareThe word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.Zerlyna@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareZerlyna@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoPhonetically means the way it sounds which would be “fonetik”
minus-squareVindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoThree syllables, so it would be fo-ne-tik.
minus-squareAffine Connection@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agofunneddic (US) funnettic (UK)
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoThat’s transposing it how we sound to them, though! If the above were pronounced in a baseline kiwi accent the U would just get deeper. The vowel shift goes the other way if I’m to recreate their pronunciation using my own accent: Fehr ned ik (US) Foe net eck (UK)
Phonetically means the way it sounds which would be “fonetik”
So pronounced phone-tick?
Three syllables, so it would be fo-ne-tik.
funneddic (US)
funnettic (UK)
That’s transposing it how we sound to them, though!
If the above were pronounced in a baseline kiwi accent the U would just get deeper. The vowel shift goes the other way if I’m to recreate their pronunciation using my own accent:
Fehr ned ik (US)
Foe net eck (UK)