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Jul 25 2021 08:08pm
Un eye did

I was a kid at the time and never heard legit, so it was "leg-it" until I said it irl and was flamed

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Quote (Hyperdimension @ Jul 25 2021 02:12am)
you nid
english isn't my main language, i know it comes from unidentified which isn't pronounced like that but I learned english through videogames so never heard the words for a long time and got a lot of bad habit of mispronounciation


Same tbh
What about merc/sorc
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You-nid
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Jul 25 2021 10:43pm
In spanish you read words as you write them, not like english that "ice" and "eyes" are nearly the same.
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Jul 25 2021 10:48pm
Quote (Kalandra @ 25 Jul 2021 22:51)
What about merc/sorc


merc -> murrkuh
sorc -> soar-suh

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Quote (Kalandra @ Jul 25 2021 10:51pm)
Same tbh
What about merc/sorc


muhrssss
sorsssss
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Quote (capsuleqqqffffff @ Jul 26 2021 12:48am)
merc -> murrkuh
sorc -> soar-suh

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Quote (Hyperdimension @ Jul 26 2021 10:39am)
muhrssss
sorsssss


sork

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Jul 26 2021 09:55am
When you stick letters together the pronunciation changes.

ID , short for identification, is just pronunciation of the respective letters. "Eye Dee"

Un is a prefix meaning not, and is pronounced "Uhn", such as unidentified, unforgiving.

Putting these together changes the word however,

It can be understood as Un-ID, which hyphenated would be pronounced "Uhn Eye Dee", but the word Unid takes on a new pronounciation with the combined spelling.

If we were to take the word unidentified and cut off "entified" we would have the pronounciation "Un-Eyed"

Both these are awkward.

The correct pronunciation follows established convention in words such as University and Unicorn, which pronounces a word starting in Uni as "You-nih"

Words ending in "id" are pronounced "Ihd" such as hominid or arachnid.

Which brings us to the correct pronunciation of Unid as

"You-Nid"

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Quote (ZeaLORDeaL @ 26 Jul 2021 11:55)
When you stick letters together the pronunciation changes.

ID , short for identification, is just pronunciation of the respective letters. "Eye Dee"

Un is a prefix meaning not, and is pronounced "Uhn", such as unidentified, unforgiving.

Putting these together changes the word however,

It can be understood as Un-ID, which hyphenated would be pronounced "Uhn Eye Dee", but the word Unid takes on a new pronounciation with the combined spelling.

If we were to take the word unidentified and cut off "entified" we would have the pronounciation "Un-Eyed"

Both these are awkward.

The correct pronunciation follows established convention in words such as University and Unicorn, which pronounces a word starting in Uni as "You-nih"

Words ending in "id" are pronounced "Ihd" such as hominid or arachnid.

Which brings us to the correct pronunciation of Unid as

"You-Nid"


As someone who loves reading about linguistics, ZeaLORDeal just laid out their first page of a forty page powerful hypothesis for their master's thesis. I am in awe. :hail:
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