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minus-squarePraiseTheSoup@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 年前If I’m understanding correctly then the words “sauce” and “source” are indistinguishable when spoken by a brit?
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·3 年前Its important because if youre at the dinner table and ask for sauce wrong, mum will pass you 273,000 lines of javascript.
minus-squareagent_flounder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 年前Looks that way… https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/sauce https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/source https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/course https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/horse
If I’m understanding correctly then the words “sauce” and “source” are indistinguishable when spoken by a brit?
Pretty much yeah!
Source will have emphasis on the r.
Its important because if youre at the dinner table and ask for sauce wrong, mum will pass you 273,000 lines of javascript.
That’s borderline child abuse
and horse doesn’t??
Depends on who you ask.
It’s the same in Aussie English
Looks that way…
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/sauce
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/source
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/course
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/horse