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[Rabulias]

Now make that same long O sound and hold it a few seconds before saying the word we. Your lips barely restrict before moving apart.

Say goo followed by we without a pause so it’s goo-we.

English has words that could be spelled with a w but aren’t like gooey. Just as easily could be goowe. Same sounds. Everything after the initial g is a vowel, including the W.

Thanks for this, but I disagree with your example. I can tell a difference in pronunciation and mouth position saying "goo-ee" versus "goo-we". Using the W sound my lips constrict, even if briefly.

Edited to add: Also, my point was it was very rare in the English language for the letter W in a word's spelling to function as a vowel, not that other letters could combine to elicit a W sound.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Wait how do people pronounce it in the US? "Pray-leen" or something?

There are indeed uncultured swine- almost all outside of Louisiana- who insist on pronouncing it that way…and worse.

 

[Ryujin]

There are indeed uncultured swine- almost all outside of Louisiana- who insist on pronouncing it that way…and worse.

Guess that I'm only partially domesticated, then, as I'll accept both prayleen and prahleen.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Guess that I'm only partially domesticated, then, as I'll accept both prayleen and prahleen.

https://i.*****.com/2FELaAz.gif

 

[gnarlygninja]

Guess that I'm only partially domesticated, then, as I'll accept both prayleen and prahleen.

I'd say you're in fine company as both Merriam Webster and the OED agree with you.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Guess that I'm only partially domesticated, then, as I'll accept both prayleen and prahleen.

I mean, I will say for prayleen that unlike some US regional pronunciations, it is at least comprehensible (I know, I know countries in glass houses, Manchester and Liverpool exist etc.), unlike say the North Indiana "taggar" for "tiger" (which to me is pronunced "tie-grr", not like name Taggart missing the t!).

 

[Ryujin]

I mean, I will say for prayleen that unlike some US regional pronunciations, it is at least comprehensible (I know, I know countries in glass houses, Manchester and Liverpool exist etc.), unlike say the North Indiana "taggar" for "tiger" (which to me is pronunced "tie-grr", not like name Taggart missing the t!).

Try central New York State for saying "pap", meaning the word for soda.

 

[TheSword]

Today I learned that DMing for total strangers can really work out. Not every online group of strangers will work but when it does it’s great.

 

[Bohandas]

TIL about this stuff, some i already knew about

20 Seemingly Unsolvable Mysteries

Get your tinfoil hats on.

www.cracked.com

#7 sounds like it's probably a Heaven's Gate style cult suicide

 

[Ryujin]

#7 sounds like it's probably a Heaven's Gate style cult suicide

That's one of the theories. There was also an uncorroborated report that another body, also with a lead mask, was found not far away several years before. This site has the best write-up that I could find, that doesn't go down some paranormal rabbit hole.

Solving the Lead Masks of Vintem Hill - Skeptoid

Two dead bodies were found in Brazil in 1966 with mysterious masks made of lead.

skeptoid.com