Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhat is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?message-squaremessage-square132fedilinkarrow-up192arrow-down11
arrow-up191arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square132fedilink
minus-squarePiranha Phish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month ago“Sphere” That pronunciation … like WTF … did word inventors just figure we had totally exhausted the sound combinations that we could splice together?!
minus-squareowenfromcanada@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoSounds like the linguists got drunk. “No no no no no… iss’not a ball, issa sphhhere”
“Sphere”
That pronunciation … like WTF … did word inventors just figure we had totally exhausted the sound combinations that we could splice together?!
Sounds like the linguists got drunk.
“No no no no no… iss’not a ball, issa sphhhere”