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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

However none of those have the g-i-f sequence and have the j sound.

So the criteria for pronunciation is other words that have the exact same letters? What does that mean for the pronunciation of "women"?

[–] towerful@programming.dev -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Women Vs world? Women Vs Woo? Women Vs work? Women Vs wonder?

Cause the "wom" sequence would be...
Women Vs Womb?
Women Vs Wombat?

The arguement is obviously nonsense.
It's going into syntax of words to get pronunciation, instead the acronym/name.
Which is funny, because that's exactly what's happening in the gif/jif argument.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not sure what you're trying to say, but not a single one of those words pronounce the "wo" like it is in "women."

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It seems to be closest to the i in fish -- hence the fun alternate spelling of photi

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Ghoti is better (using the "gh" in "enough"), and yep.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Womb and women are pronounced the same (well, except the ending).
Unless it's a local dialect thing where "women" is pronounced "wimin"?

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nobody I've ever heard pronounces it "woo-min", only "wimmin." Definitely not a local dialect.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, if you heard me, I pronounce "women" like "womb".
Maybe I have the local dialect.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

Are you from PNW? I think I remember a video from reddit where someone said woo-min and a commenter said they're from there and say it like that.