Cheers

All of the examples relate to differences in pronunciation, so the guidance in the OP is good - use your personal pronunciation. I would imagine this would be harder for non-native speakers, but fortunately there aren’t many words (that I’m aware of) that are commonly pronounced with a leading vowel sound or leading consonant sound depending of dialect.

The only example cited in this thread that most people will experience is “herb” which has large populations that pronounce it with and without a silent “h.” “History” and related words are not commonly pronounced with a silent h outside of regional dialects.

English is definitely nuts, but can you give an example of where this particular rule doesn’t apply?

Carefully read the comment you’re replying to

Relevant xkcd (my first time posting an image - fingers crossed)

https://xkcd.com/2827/

No, it’s cooler than that! All these vegetables are cultivars of the same species (Brassica oleracea). Citrus trees are different species with common origins.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durum_wheat

Ah yes, the US Food, Drink, and Drug Administration (FDDA).

No offense intended, just poking fun.

It’s odd; in the old episodes, 5-4 includes ad bumps (e.g., “It feels like a good time to take a break”) but then immediately resumes the episode(“And we’re back”) without playing an ad. Maybe they switched advertising partners and didn’t bother to update old content?

I’m on the RSS feed (not Spotify, Apple, etc.) and was able to listen to most of the back catalog without ads. When I was catching up, ads weren’t playing in episodes older than about 1 year.

I had a similar ad experience with The Dollop, another good podcast.

A good podcast. They do have ads though.

I’m sure I’m not the first to note this, but this person would almost definitely define gender by " what between your legs," while then describing gender based on someone’s external appearance/behavior.

I guess the common thread is telling someone else what their gender is.

It also loaded automatically for me on Voyager. Maybe it’s an instance thing?

True - even stranger

Strange - it seems that the NSFW tag doesn’t federate between Mbin and Lemmy?

Another day, another quirk of the Fediverse.

Did you mean to comment on this post? It’s not showing as NSFW to me

Bravo - very well-reasoned response.

US mid-Atlantic: Pricing is elevated, but strange; some eggs that are usually higher cost now cost less than the typically lower cost eggs. For example (all for dozen large eggs):

Store brand, conventional: $6.93

Store brand, cage free: $4.95

Store brand, organic free range: $4.59

Eggland’s Best (premium brand): $4.99

Something about the painting almost makes it look as if it’s shifting as I look at it. Very cool.

Having kids really tuned up my response to media involving kids. I just barely got through the first season of Broadchurch, and have no desire to watch any more.