Why can’t people pronounce “especially”?

[Anonymous]

Americans are not very educated in vowel sounds.

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Anonymous wrote:This bothers me too. It’s manly heard from people who grew up lower class.

Ah I see.

So you and OP are both racist and classist.

It shows that many people are functionally illiterate. They have no idea how it’s spelled or how phonics work. We don’t need to celebrate it.

English is barely phonetic. It's what happens when you have a language that colonizes other languages.

That’s not an excuse. People don’t read and it shows.

People who read are well-known for mispronouncing words due to trying to apply phonetic rules to a weakly non-phonetic language like English.

Epitome

I heard someone pronounce tome as to-me once. Confusing isn't it?

I did things like this as a kid because I was reading at a level far beyond my age and encountered words I didn’t hear people use in conversation. But that’s the opposite of not knowing that a common word like espresso is not actually spelled or pronounced as expresso.

[Anonymous]

You must be surrounded by batards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Americans are not very educated in vowel sounds.

English has more vowel sounds than other languages.

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Anonymous wrote:This bothers me too. It’s manly heard from people who grew up lower class.

Ah I see.

So you and OP are both racist and classist.

It shows that many people are functionally illiterate. They have no idea how it’s spelled or how phonics work. We don’t need to celebrate it.

English is barely phonetic. It's what happens when you have a language that colonizes other languages.

That’s not an excuse. People don’t read and it shows.

People who read are well-known for mispronouncing words due to trying to apply phonetic rules to a weakly non-phonetic language like English.

Epitome

I heard someone pronounce tome as to-me once. Confusing isn't it?

I did things like this as a kid because I was reading at a level far beyond my age and encountered words I didn’t hear people use in conversation. But that’s the opposite of not knowing that a common word like espresso is not actually spelled or pronounced as expresso.

This. As I heard someone say once, "Never mock someone for mispronouncing a word. After all, it means they learned it by *reading*."

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Anonymous wrote:This bothers me too. It’s manly heard from people who grew up lower class.

Ah I see.

So you and OP are both racist and classist.

It shows that many people are functionally illiterate. They have no idea how it’s spelled or how phonics work. We don’t need to celebrate it.

English is barely phonetic. It's what happens when you have a language that colonizes other languages.

That’s not an excuse. People don’t read and it shows.

People who read are well-known for mispronouncing words due to trying to apply phonetic rules to a weakly non-phonetic language like English.

Epitome

I heard someone pronounce tome as to-me once. Confusing isn't it?

I did things like this as a kid because I was reading at a level far beyond my age and encountered words I didn’t hear people use in conversation. But that’s the opposite of not knowing that a common word like espresso is not actually spelled or pronounced as expresso.

I never learned to sound out words. When I was a wee child, I needed to hear a word to pronounce it. I remember learning "thorn."

Spanish and German freaked me out because you could spell it like it sounded. So crazy simple.