Me listening to audiobooks, "he winded his way up the path". I always say winded like winding a spool of thread, but hear it told like deprived of air from the narrators...
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That doesn't sound correct. If you're talking about breath, I would say "He became winded on his way up the path" or something like that. If you're talking about traveling, I would say "He wound his way up the path."
I heard that in the US, every business needs to have a publicly listed phone number, not to mention the number of times I see "TEXT ... TO ..." or "CALL ..." displayed more prominently than the URL on ads. Why do they still do so much over the phone?
IF you're thinking that's a legal thing, it is not. In my experience it's the opposite. Companies obscure their phone number because taking calls costs more than dealing with a chat or email.
I know, and phone calls are more annoying for neurodivergent people like me, although I get the reverse is true for old people. I had a job that featured looking up data and for any given active company with employees in Czechia, there is over 90% chance you get an address you can visit (they are legally required to list one but there are obfuscation services), about 70% for some kind of maintained web presence outside the legal registry, and some 50% for a working phone number. The latter two are roughly reversed for one-person establishments.
What happened is that I heard a Czechoslovak emmigrant to the US rambling while visiting his homeland that "phone books are useless in Czechoslo- uh - Czechia because companies aren't required by the Constitution [sic] to keep their data updated there".
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I mean, even if you're too lazy to pull out a dictionary, you can search online how to pronounce words.
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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
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i pronounced "Ascendancy" with a dance in the middle and "Achievement" with a sound like a hissing cat instead of "chief".
I know better now, but i caused some laughs.
a service that could explain how it's pronounced, AND WHY - etymology and local vernacular - would be amazing
It's not hyperbole. Lithe communication is the epitome of communication.
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