Today is Wednesday

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

How the fuck would you actually say that word the way it is spelled? Everyone I have ever heard my entire life as a native English speaker has said WeNsday.

 

[Epic Fail Man]

ESL moment.

 

[Unsane]

I forgive your retardation, but it's Wednesday. Are you an immigrant?

 

[sweater_supremacy]

I thought that pronounciations was because i was raised by a bunch of dutch english speakers, i guess ignioring letters in a word breaks all cultural boundries

 

[Lithuophile]

ESL moment.

She is DaF, unfortunately

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

She is DZS, unfortunately

Leider.

 

[Catler]

The D is silent because people are afraid of having too much d.

 

[Shidoen]

Wed-Nes-Day

 

[User names must be unique]

The D is there but most speakers transpose it with the N so it becomes Wendsday (and sounds more like wenZday).

Probably because D directly followed by N is a rarity in English, I can't actually think of another word where the letters DN are together like that.

 

[Tablet County]

My dudes.

 

[gampboonerisms]

i knew a chick from bermuta that probounced it WIN-ES-DAY. she was blown away when i said 'no, it's "winzday"'

or if you have a super thick southern accent it's "winzdee"

 

[Shamefur Dispray]

It's because we Americans are too kick ass and rebellious to say a word the way everyone else does.

What's that Febrewary? Nah man it FebUary. Aluminium? Too fruity for us try Aluminum. Muhlay? More like your gay it's meelee.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

She is DaF, unfortunately

You were right the first time. Deutsch als Zweitsprache. Ich mein dass ich DaF verstehe aber der Unterschied ist nichts dass dir Sorgen darueber machen soll. Labas varkaras.

 

[Gargamel]

It is pronounced like this:

 

[dick brain]

It's because we Americans are to kick ass and rebellious to say a word the way everyone else does.

What's that Febrewary? Nah man it FebUary. Aluminium? Too fruity for us try Aluminum. Muhlay? More like your gay it's meelee.

Are you joking? Ignoring the letters in their own language is the last remaining cornerstone of Br*tish identity. They don't say Rs, they don't say Hs, they use glottal stops for every consonant. They're bound and determined to fuck up their own language worse than they fucked up their own empire for whatever reason. Ask one to say Worcestershire. It's like they're in an arms race with France to have the most unpronounced letters.

Ironically, according to some random interview with a professional linguist I'm too lazy to find again, this phenomenon occurred after the colonization of the Americas because affluent English youth thought talking wrong was trendy, meaning American English is more by-the-book and closer to old British English than modern British English is, and modern Brits are basically speaking grandpa's leet speak.

 

[Tablet County]

It's because we Americans are to kick ass and rebellious to say a word the way everyone else does.

What's that Febrewary? Nah man it FebUary. Aluminium? Too fruity for us try Aluminum. Muhlay? More like your gay it's meelee.

>mfw Americans call Middyweeks "Wednesday".