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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Sun, 11 September 2022, 09:27:09
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Tp4 has always said sense - Ors.
what's gekha's stance on this
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I am not sure that I understand the question.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/senser (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/senser)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensor (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensor)
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Obviously it refers to Sensors spelling. no one says sensers = sensors.
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Oh, to some people those subtleties of pronunciation are significant, but many/most English speakers just blow right over them.
I try to make just an infinitesimal but distinct gesture towards (tow-ards) voicing the letter looking up at me from the page, such as the "o" in sensor or the "t" in often.
Some peoples' heads explode when you try to get them to hear the difference between "pen" and "pin" or "Aaron" and "Erin" ....
Another example along those lines is the capitol of Ukraine, Kiev/Kyiv. When the war broke out, there was quite a kerfuffle about how to pronounce what we in America had always called KEE-ev. Afterwards, in spite of the fact that most actual Ukrainians explained that the word has more than one syllable but less than 2 syllables the distinction was just too subtle for simplicity-loving Americans. So on the news every day I cringe when almost every announcer says it as the one-syllable "KEEV".