Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'”
by YurgenJurgensen on Monday November 21, 2022 @07:27AM
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"Zeitgeist" seems like a bug, I've never heard anyone pronounce the leading 'z' as 'ˈts' in English, and doing so as a non-German might even be seen as 'over-pronuciation'.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zeitgeist#Pronunciation gives two pronunciations:
Pronunciation (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈtsaɪtˌɡaɪst/, /ˈzaɪtˌɡaɪst/
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zeitgeist also gives two: ˈtsīt-ˌgīst ˈzīt-
I tried to get statistics from listening to https://youglish.com/pronounce/zeitgeist/english? but found I have a hard time distinguishing the two forms.
"boatswain" should be pronounced "bosun".
You're right. Though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boatswain says "formerly and dialectally also /ˈboʊtsweɪn/ BOHT-swayn", the dictionaries I checked do not list that alternative.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/boatswain even comments:
> Phonetic spelling bo'sun/bosun is attested from 1840. Fowler [1926] writes, "The nautical pronunciation (bō'sn) has become so general that to avoid it is more affected than to use it."
Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'”
by withinboredom on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:05PM
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Most of the examples you gave are compound words, or made through suffixes and who knows, maybe my Russian teacher told a lie!
It certainly seems your Russian teacher wasn't fond of schnitzel nor seltzer.
Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'”
by withinboredom on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:34PM
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I was literally laughing so hard from this comment. Thanks for brightening my day.
(It doesn't have "spritzer" in the list, and uses the spelling "matzoh" instead of "matzo". I didn't look for a more complete list of word pronunciations.)
Finally, two words with two occurrences of the "ts" sound, neither at the end: