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rrogers

@EternalOutsider@mastodon.social @ginsterbusch @autism101 @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe
Your right! I must have seen that 100 times:), and I always just "saw" HIPA! Sometimes things get stuck in my mind the wrong way.
When I was a child, I pronounced pneumonia with the "p" and people looked at me strangely for a while (years).

@rrogers @EternalOutsider @ginsterbusch @autism101 @actuallyautistic

I was this many years old when I learned that people apparently pronounce pneumonia without the "p".

@wakame

French does not shy away from having silent letters, but strangely enough, we do pronounce the "p"s in pneumonie and psychologie.

I always giggle mentally when I have to not pronounce them in pneumonia and psychology.

What the hell, Anglo-Saxons? These "p"s are your pronunciation Waterloo? You gleefully pronounce all the things, but not these? smh

@rrogers @EternalOutsider @ginsterbusch @autism101 @actuallyautistic

@yourautisticlife @wakame @rrogers @EternalOutsider @ginsterbusch @autism101 @actuallyautistic I’ve always blamed the French for most silent letters in English words…Anglo Saxon actually had very few silent letters and no double letters until 1066…and we all know what happened there…in the word knight (cnight) the c and gh would have been pronounced ala Monty Python style, house was origin spelled “hus”, knife was “cnif”etc., and of course the silent p words are usually Greek in origin.

@yourautisticlife @wakame @rrogers @EternalOutsider @autism101 @actuallyautistic So doeth German. Although people probably talk about a "Lungenentzündung" (note the missing 'p') xD

@rrogers

There've been so many ways that's been written, I just have to name it in my head, to know how to write it.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA.

@EternalOutsider @ginsterbusch @autism101 @actuallyautistic