I read this recently and I love it. Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Replying to @ByePoleHer @AsiaChloeBrown
I found out in college that invalid (not valid) and invalid (person) are pronounced two different ways. Unfortunately, I found out from my brother, he looked at me mad funny over it.
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Replying to @IfIWereMagneto @AsiaChloeBrown
These types of words are the hardest to teach my older kids (Chinese learning English) because they why me to death and there's really no good damn reason for it lol. English is HARD.
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Replying to @ByePoleHer @AsiaChloeBrown
A friend of mine is Vietnamese and she said when she was first learning English, she was so mad about the word island and couldn’t understand why it wasn’t pronounced “is-land” and I felt her pain. English sucks.
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Replying to @IfIWereMagneto
I've had students get exasperated over that too. And homonyms.
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Replying to @ByePoleHer @IfIWereMagneto
I literally just realized that island breaks down to "is land" like it "IS LAND" in the middle of some water and now I'm super irked that it's not pronounced that way lmao
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Replying to @brownandbella @ByePoleHer
I’m feeling some type of way about it now too
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As a kid, my toughest word while reading was “aisle.” I kept thinking “what the heck is an aye-sol?!”
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there was a speak-and-spell at the library when i was like 5 that kept telling me to spell "aisle" and i kept writing "isle" and it kept not taking it and i got sooooo mad
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