language violence
@LottieVixen this is actually an example of language violence - when I was younger, I said "haitch", and so did many of my classmates, until our teacher forced it out of us, because it was "improper"
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@lizardsquid @LottieVixen Reminds me that at some point I saw a newspaper opinion from whenever ago (late 19th - 20th century?) complaining about students in Oxford pronouncing future as "fewcher" and so on. The writer suggested beating it out of them.
Some people get weird (and evidently aggressively so) about the smallest things.
I mean, I get weird about the smallest things as well, but not like that.
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@BatElite @lizardsquid @LottieVixen@dev.glitch.social ... wait, then how did people even expect it to be pronounced, "fewter"? "foocher"?
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@Thaminga @lizardsquid @LottieVixen No idea, I don't think that was mentioned. Maybe fu-cher? (that might be the base as foo-cher though)
I've heard that accents can change pretty quickly over several decades (probably more easily before there were recordings to refer back to) so it's possible that their preferred way of pronouncing has ironically died out since.
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@BatElite @Thaminga @lizardsquid @LottieVixen@dev.glitch.social It was, I imagine, probably originally /futjɚ/.
