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Graham Downs
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It's strange how Americans tend to say pythON and amazON, where we tend to say pythin and amazin, but they tend to say recird while we say recORD (for the noun, I mean. The pronunciation of rhe verb is different again).

This stuff is so interesting to me. How different words are pronounced different ways in different places and how that came about.

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Leon Cowle · 6w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq0dxafmw65292jj77fv3y8zmfc59lns47f4j6au2ahs47acy9ex7s6yzyt0 What will be interesting to see in 200 or so years is whether there was any kind of global homogenization that happened over time (per language, I mean). With global tv, movies, social m...