It’s called a dictionary, and they’ve been doing it for literally years at this point.
You can live your life to the fullest even if you don't know phonetic alphabet
You don't need to. The Free Dictionary has buttons on every word that speak the word in either US or UK English
Still won't help if your locality uses a different pronunciation.
Can't you just type a word into merriam webster and get an audio pronouciation?
I speak spanish and one of the first cultural shocks I had was when I as a kid saw an episode of some sitcom (can't remember) and there where talks of a "spelling bee" a contest to see who could spell correctly, that was so alien to at the time because in spanish there are just a few words that are tricky, because they have some silent H or a P at the beginning but then I started to learn english and it all made sense.
"English: if you can spell our words we'll literally give you a fucking trophy and a scholarship"
In finnish it's the same and I've even had the same experience! We write almost completely phonetically so something like "spelling bee" is an insane thought. English writing system is basically abstract at this point and you just need to learn to pronounce each individual word lmao
Or you can look up how to pronounce it. The IPA and often audio pronunciations aren't that hard to find, unless you speak a more obscure language
So many of the audio pronunciations are computer generated, I used to like IPA but then I stopped drinking so it doesn't really help any more.
International phonetic alphabet :3.. though trying to pronounce some of the sounds in it does make you want the other kind of IPA lol
But isn't the whole point of that to avoid the "oh sweetie..."?
More to avoid the "oh sweetie" from people you know and care about.
Though I wonder how much you could trust the pronunciation if they outsourced the call center to an English-speaking third-world country like Alabama.
The New York Public Library has Dial 917-ASK-NYPL (917-275-6975) to connect with librarians via phone Monday through Saturday from 10 AM to 6 PM. Available in English and español.
In fact I would wager almost any library would work for this. Librarians are by and large the most helpful and I judgmental people I have ever met. Every single interaction I've ever had with them has been positive.
Someone was telling me about Hermy-own in Harry Potter, and it took me a minute to realize it was Hermione.
There are two main groups, those who learned their foundational language mainly orally, and those who mainly learned by reading. Those who were readers would read Hermy-own or Hermy-onn because that would match how other similar spellings are pronounced. I was an ambitious reader very early on, so my pronounciations tend to follow spelling rules rather than actual practice
Conversely, just fucking go for it. Who even cares? Have a laugh about it!
I think mispronouncing weird words you've worked into your vocab is a nice middle ground between sounding insufferable and approachable. Yes I used ameliorate but I also mangled the hell out of it, so how smart could I really be?
My buddy says "chasm" with a soft ch. We've tried to correct him. He doesn't hear us. He also pronounces "tome" like "tomb".
We play DnD together if anyone was wondering why these words would come up with any regularity.
What about words that everybody pronounces wrong, such as “nougat”? No, it’s not “new-git”, it’s “new-gah”. I even heard “nugget” from somebody not long ago.
No I will pronounce Latin with guterization so bad it'd make a Catholic priest have an aneurysm. Worst part is it actually sounds close to classical Latin or so I've been told.
I pronounced Tagalog tag-uh-log for years until I met my Filipino wife. Tuh-gah-log.
Yeah, that's my favorite girl scout cookie!
I had the misfortune of pronouncing rapping as raping in front of the class when I was 13
"My favorite rapper is Puff Daddy"
Benefit of living in Australia is that every word is pronounced wrong so it doesn't matter how you say it.
Can't even pronounce our second largest city right lol. Melbourne became Melbin
It's not hyperbole. Lithe communication is the epitome of communication.
Then can we force SciFi audiobook narrators to use it?
Ray Porter, I love you to fucking death, but you kill me sometimes....
I loved The Expanse, and Jefferson Mays is amazing
But "jimbals" drove me crazy
For Ray Porter, his inability to pronounce "Archimedes" was bad enough they made him go back and re-record a book.
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