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I've always pronounced the word "Southern" to rhyme with howthurn. I know most people say it like "suthurn" instead. I didn't realize that the way I pronounce it is considered weird until recently!

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[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

I don't personally do this, but many people in my family say the days of the week with "dee". Like "Sundee", "Mondee". I think it's charming, but one of their children said they were weird for saying it that way.

Also, as a programmer, there are some words that programmers use that are abbreviated which I refuse to pronounce the way that others pronounce them because I think it's weird, but virtually everybody pronounces them different to me.

For example, there is a common keyword in programming languages called "enum", and most people I know pronounce it as "EE-num", like it rhymes with "ME dumb". But "enum" is short for "enumeration", so I pronounce it as if it's the first two syllables of "enumeration", like "ee-NUUM". Although I think the normal pronunciation is weird, I don't say anything to people. I just pronounce it the way that I think it should be pronounced. But on multiple occasions, other programmers have called me out for it and asked why I pronounce it "wrong".

There are several other programming terms like this, but they don't immediately come to mind. Enum is the most common example.

[-] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago

Continuing the programming vernacular, I was waiting to checkout at Best Buy in America like a month ago, and all the registers were empty forcing everyone to check out at customer service by the geek squad.

Someone came up behind me and asked if we were in the place to checkout. I replied, "Yes, this is the queue."

Shortly after that, he had the same conversation with the person behind him and also used the word "queue" to which the third person asked if he was British, and the second guy just said he repeated what I said so I had to chime in and say I wasn't British, just a programmer.

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

I don't get it. Are there other pronunciations for queue?

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Their story is more about the choice of words. In America, we typically call it a "line". In England, it is typically called a "queue".

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