“The enemy of my enemy is my enemy in season 2.”
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It’s a totally different kind of flying!
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Altogether.
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But that’s not important right now.
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“What’s this line for?”
“It’s the line to get in that line.”
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That’s about the most British thing I can imagine.
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Ah, but ‘line’ is a very un-British word in this context. We have queues.
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Still my least favourite word.
The letter Q, pronounced correctly, followed by 4 silent letters.
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Yes, that was my thought. Except this was Chicago.
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That’s what makes it one of my favourite words!
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This one has always stuck with me:
Empty
Mpty
Mty
MT
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Do you not pronounce the p in empty?
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In my dialect, MT is pronounced not exactly like empty, but it’s very close. Not a linguist, so I don’t know what the P is doing, but it’s not strongly voiced.
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Wiktionary says there’s a distinct difference between UK and US pronunciation, and I imagine there’s some middle ground too:
UK: /ˈɛmp.ti/
US: /ˈɛm.ti/
Even if you can’t read phonetics, the difference is obvious =)
(link provided for audio)
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I also think there could be a difference in how people pronounce a word when they read it versus when they say it spontaneously (if you’re one of those people, like me, who “hear” the words in their head when they read (to themselves)).
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This line read is the ultimate to me as “M T Case”
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I kind of do, but it’s a bit of an affect like the L in walk. But I think for most people I speak with it’s an unvoiced labial stop. Like there’s a silence between the m and the t as opposed to the m flowing directly to the t.
But you could say emmtee, em|tee, emptee, or empitee and no one would look at you sideways.
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Some people don’t pronounce the p in empty because they borrowed it for hamster (ham<p>ster) and forgot to put it back.
I’m pretty sure I pronounce the p in empty, but as a linguist friend of mine said: the sounds your mouth makes doesn’t necessarily correspond directly with your concept of how its spelled.
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One of the reasons why Hangul is so cool. Start with how the language sounds and then make a script that fits. In contrast, I’m not a fan of the letter forms of Shavian. They’re too slight and finicky.
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