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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Wild card is you learned English in a foreign non English native country and your accent is an absolute mess. You say Autumn but Taxi, color but wa(t)er, and maybe you call you cell phone your "Handy".

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, you never considered pronouncing gif as “jiff” because your native language (German), where you heard it first, has no soft G.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

pronouncing it as "yiff"