Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge

Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by Petersipoi on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:35PM (#47881520)

I have a feeling you're fighting a losing battle here

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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by embedding-shape on Thursday April 23, 2026 @05:52PM (#47882605)

Prenounciation and correcting other's spelling is always a losing battle, probably for everyone involved.

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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by rezonant on Thursday April 23, 2026 @06:28PM (#47883006)

*Pronunciation

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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by 867-5309 on Thursday April 23, 2026 @06:41PM (#47883157)

whoosh

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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by rezonant on Thursday April 23, 2026 @08:20PM (#47883973)

i think it's actually a whoosh for you :-)

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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by dhosek on Thursday April 23, 2026 @10:07PM (#47884660)

*wush

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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by penguin_booze on Thursday April 23, 2026 @09:21PM (#47884392)

Hey, that was the american spelling.

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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by TeMPOraL on Thursday April 23, 2026 @07:15PM (#47883465)

That one is ancient history. My 6yo is currently fighting her friends and their parents alike to make them realize and learn that there is an "L" at the end - it's "axolotl", not "axolot".

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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by dasyatidprime on Thursday April 23, 2026 @07:32PM (#47883613)

It's technically not just “an L” if we're trying to avoid Anglicizing the pronunciation, right? The “tl” cluster is its own affricate with a lateral fricative as its tail, or am I misremembering?

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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by brunoborges on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:37PM (#47881549)

Every scientific battle is worth fighting for!

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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by psychoslave on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:43PM (#47881641)

Scientific study of languages generally admits that language drift eventually.

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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by whyenot on Thursday April 23, 2026 @05:32PM (#47882344)

What is scientific about this pronunciation? Axolotl is not the scientfic name (its Ambystoma mexicanum), and usually the goal with pronouncing scientific names is for the listener to be able to spell the name after hearing it (at least for botany, which is what I am familiar with).

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