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[–] 20 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I also do that face when I hear kilometres and colonisation spelt wrong.

Also, my confusion face isn't Earl Grey flavoured, as I'm not some sort of lah-de-dah French Space Captain or whatever, so I drink normal Yorkshire Tea, which is obviously grown in the great tea fields of Yorkshire, which are real.

And yes, I can hear spelling, and no, I can't prove it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    As a non-native, I accept and welcome your insistence on spelling words the original way. Now let's make sure everyone spells and pronounces everything the original way, including

    • dachshund (da - ch=kh - s - hoond)
    • fuchsia (foo - ch=kh - see - uh)
    • bruschetta (broo - s - k - ettuh)
    • goulash is only accepted when talking about the Austrian version of the Hungarian original, gulyás (goo - yush)
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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    metre may be closer to the original loanword but in no way does it match the english pronounciation, meter does that much better

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    Meet-uh
    (Or meet-ah, for Southerners)

    [Edit] Or, within 100 miles in random directions:
    Mittah
    Mi'ae
    Meit-eh
    Meet-uuuuuh
    Meet-rr
    Mittre

    Probably depends quite strongly on where you live.

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