Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe most dangerous kind of canoes...lemmy.worldimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1860arrow-down14
arrow-up1856arrow-down1imageThe most dangerous kind of canoes...lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squarelittlecolt@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoBut which one will we be mispronouncing? Canoes = kay-noes? Volcanoes = vahl cuh noos?
minus-squarestebo02@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-21 year agoTIL canoes isn’t pronounced kay-noes like volcanoes… English why do you keep bamboozling me 😩
minus-squaredustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-21 year agoBecause English isn’t a language, it’s a goon in a trench-coat that lures other languages into dark alleys and beats them down to steal spare grammar. Canoe comes from Caribbean indigenous words through Spanish and Volcano comes from ancient Latin and Roman religion.
But which one will we be mispronouncing?
Canoes = kay-noes?
Volcanoes = vahl cuh noos?
TIL canoes isn’t pronounced kay-noes like volcanoes… English why do you keep bamboozling me 😩
Because English isn’t a language, it’s a goon in a trench-coat that lures other languages into dark alleys and beats them down to steal spare grammar.
Canoe comes from Caribbean indigenous words through Spanish and Volcano comes from ancient Latin and Roman religion.