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mathhobbit ([personal profile] mathhobbit) wrote2017-05-14 09:48 pm
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Carburetor

Maybe I've been pronouncing it wrong my whole life?

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[personal profile] sauergeek 2017-05-17 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Accent on first and third, CAR-bur-AY-tur? (I don't know the right symbology, so that's semiphoenetic.)
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[personal profile] mathhobbit 2017-05-17 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
CAR ber Ate er
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[personal profile] sauergeek 2017-05-19 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
That's close enough phonetically to mine that I'm willing to call it the same.

I suspect a linguist would have conniptions about that prior statement.
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