Tell us why we should unexpectedly come to love your hobby.

  • sadbehr@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Super interesting.

    Does that mean that we’re pronouncing either helicopter or pterodactyl wrong? We don’t say the ‘pter’ parts the same way I think?

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      1 year ago

      nah there’s no “wrong” for a common native pronunciation. but for silent p- words specifically, the /pt/ and /ps/ consonant clusters just don’t occur at the start of words in English. so the p goes silent in those words. pterodactyl, psychology. but in languages like Greek and German they do occur!