The Truth Behind Poland’s ‘Anti-Vampire’ Graves

Re:The Truth Behind Poland’s ‘Anti-Vampire’ Graves by mzs on Saturday August 19, 2023 @02:42PM (#37191774)

Ha, it's BI-toof (bi like in bit) and in Kashubian Bëtowò. Their city website has some nice multimedia* BTW, the songs (Bytów w piosence) is particularly great. They commissioned some Pomeranian artists (not the dogs, though that would be even cooler, the region) to record them, many are written especially for this page. Some are even pò kaszëbe. Anyway, it's a really nice place that had an unfortunate occupant. Now try to pronounce Bydgoszcz ;)

* https://www.bytow.com.pl/Multimedia,27

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Re:The Truth Behind Poland’s ‘Anti-Vampire’ Graves by Etherlord87 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:43AM (#37197874)

> Ha, it's BI-toof (bi like in bit)

Almost. I'm Polish, so I know how to pronounce "Bytów", but I got confused for a moment if maybe I didn't know hot to say "bit" in English…

Wiktionary says "bit" is pronounced as [bit] using IPA.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bit

Wiktionary also says "Bytów" is pronounced as IPA: [ˈbɨtuf], AS: [bytuf].

You can listen to it here:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Pl-Byt%C...

London, South African, Southern American "lip" is one example of this vowel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_unrounded_vowel

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Re:The Truth Behind Poland’s ‘Anti-Vampire’ Graves by mzs on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:43AM (#37205575)

bit + vampire... Get it ;)

Anyway I was born in Gdańsk so now I'll be self conscious about yet another thing I mispronounce in English.

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