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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (8 children)

How else can you pronounce egg?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My Midwestern ex wife pronounced it "aig"

A long "a" sound. I'm a Southerner so for me it's egg. With a eh sound.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ohh yeah, I have heard "aig" before. I didn't even think of that as a different pronounciation, just an accent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean... That's the same thing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Of course. But my mind categorizes them separately... As in, in two speakers with the same accent can have two different "pronounciations" of a word. And likewise, one "pronounciation" can sound differently coming from two different accents.

[–] negativenull 16 points 5 months ago

The 'G's are pronounced like the G in GIF

[–] Agent641 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Blum0108 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Klear 14 points 5 months ago

A total egglord.

[–] WereCat 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

No. The second G is silent. What's wrong with you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In New Zealand, it’s pronounced “ig”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You know you're pronouncing egg wrong when you have to spell it some other way.

[–] nyctre 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You mean like 'edinbara' or 'middlesbra'? Or asthma where the 'th' might as well not even be there? Queue? Is it weird or is it wierd? Worstersher sauce? English is full of those, c'mon :p everything is pronounced wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah but Azma looks weird

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You could say "eygg" or "uurggs". So many options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Everyone I've come across from NZ says it like igg, so there's that one, too. Aussies have a weird vowel to it that I hear at times, too.

[–] samus12345 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

A person of culture I see. Thank you kind person.