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Who killed Mr. Boddy in the study and with what?: the great debate topic™®
KickFlow:
--- Quote from: ThatDarkNinja778 on March 27, 2015, 03:22:57 PM ---I always just pronounced each letter.
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Now that's just inefficient.
otto-san:
--- Quote from: The Resonte! on March 27, 2015, 03:21:09 PM ---actually i do
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this is the great debate topic...............
4real tho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_G#English
--- Quote ---In English orthography, the pronunciation of hard ⟨g⟩ is /ɡ/ and that of soft ⟨g⟩ is /dʒ/; in a number of French loanwords, such as rouge and genre, soft ⟨g⟩ is /ʒ/. In word roots of Greco-Latinate origin, the soft ⟨g⟩ pronunciation occurs before ⟨i e y⟩ while the hard ⟨g⟩ pronunciation occurs elsewhere. [2] In words of Germanic origin, and loans from other sources, the hard pronunciation may occur before ⟨i e y⟩ as well (as in get and gill).
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so this raises the question..................... ...........................wh at is the etymology of "GIF"...........
also this is hilariously probably the most heated debate ever in this extremely serious topic lol
hodot:
it's gif
blueblur121:
--- Quote from: otto-san on March 27, 2015, 03:25:11 PM ---4real tho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_G#English
so this raises the question..................... ...........................wh at is the etymology of "GIF"...........
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--- Quote from: wikipedia ---The Graphics Interchange Format (better known by its acronym GIF /ˈdʒɪf/ or /ˈɡɪf/)
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Well stuff.
sir dooble:
--- Quote from: Foxscotch on March 27, 2015, 02:25:00 PM ---OSHA, for example, is pronounced "oh-shuh"
it stands for "Occupational Safety and Health Administration"
"occupational" starts with an "ah", not an "oh"it's not really a compromise
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That's only valid if you're using an American accent, it seems.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/occupational
I would definitely pronounce it with the British English sound, with an 'Oh-k" sound, in which case "Oh-shuh" makes sense.
I actually wouldn't have even imagined that anyone pronounced this with an "ah" sound. I was really confused by your comment so I had to google it.