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Re:Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt' by ncmncm on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @02:57AM (#29792469)
Anybody who knows won't.
Re:Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt' by timonoko on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @03:11AM (#29792543)
Me knows, but I wont. Some bulgarian innkeeper will not understands any detts. But insists on me paying my deBts with special emphasis on "B".
Re:Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt' by toxik on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:36AM (#29792997)
I wouldn’t even try to use that word. I find that I can only speak as well as I write when I talk to near native speakers… I’d just say I want to pay or something
Re:Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt' by szszrk on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @05:10AM (#29793225)
Which in exchange makes you easier to understand in most of the world. I have this with "rare" - such a problematic word for a slavic person and even if you nail it, non-native speakers may not get you. So it's better to actually say it with your mother tongue accent.

"Rare" can often be substituted by "seldom", but that doesn't work very well in restaurants. I like my steak medium-well anyway.

Re:Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt' by toxik on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @05:46AM (#29793433)
"I would like my stake medium seldom, please."

I have a hard time with the word "ineligible" - easy to read and write, but I just cannot say it without stumbling. No particular part of the word is hard either, it just... comes out wrong. I think it may be unusual way you turn it into syllables: in-el-i-gi-ble.

Re:Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt' by ncmncm on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:32AM (#29805873)
My grandfather, who grew up in Santa Rosa, California, could not say "monogamous".