Why Unreal Engine 5.1 is a Deal

Re:Why Unreal Engine 5.1 is a Deal by crazygringo on Sunday November 27, 2022 @09:30AM (#33763149)

That two-syllable pronunciation initially struck me as wrong too, but it turns out:

> The disyllabic pronunciation \ˈfō-lij\ is very common. Some commentators insist that foliage requires a trisyllabic pronunciation because of its spelling, but words of a similar pattern such as carriage and marriage do not fall under their prescription.

The speaker otherwise has a fairly General American accent, so I'm curious if the two-syllable version is a geographic thing?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foliage

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Re:Why Unreal Engine 5.1 is a Deal by thaumasiotes on Sunday November 27, 2022 @10:18AM (#33763461)

>> The disyllabic pronunciation \ˈfō-lij\ is very common.

MW does also note that that pronunciation is nonstandard.

I checked the first 20 samples on youglish ( https://youglish.com/pronounce/foliage/english/us? ). 16 used an unambiguous three-syllable pronunciation, 3 unambiguously omitted the middle syllable (#9, #16, #22†), and one (#12) was ambiguous. Of the disyllabic pronunciations, only #9 had a marked regional accent.

† Why is #22 one of the first 20 samples? Two of the earlier samples are different timestamps into the same video, which I only counted once, and one is missing, which I counted zero times.

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