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Re:MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable by macintux on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:41PM (#18302783)
I hear "weary" spoken so very rarely that I have no idea how it's pronounced here (Indiana). I can't even make up my mind how I pronounce it, but I'd wager it's almost, but not quite, indistinguishable from wary.
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Re:MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable by afandian on Thursday October 25, 2018 @04:24PM (#18304267)
Of course it varies with accent and locale. So phonetic transcriptions don't help unless we use IPA. But in British English, "weary" has a diphthong and "wary" does not. Very distinctly different words.

On the subject, we pronounce "router" and "router" (two different words, same spelling) differently, one with a diphthong, one without.

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Re:MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable by ars on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:15PM (#18303145)
One is w-ee-ry the other w-ah-ry.
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Re:MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable by pritambaral on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:49PM (#18303476)
> w-ah-ry

I've always heard it pronounced way-ree.

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Re:MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable by acct1771 on Saturday October 27, 2018 @04:18AM (#18314841)
Ware-ee?
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Re:MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable by macintux on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:41PM (#18303397)
Yes...ish. That's the correct pronunciation, but neither are used frequently enough for me to be confident that's the actual pronunciation, and I'd wager it's different in different places.
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