What the hell! Let's all just go crazy!
smackjack, I always pronounce the H in Meghan and the TH in Thailand in my head.
Siethron, Thighland is a very different place in my head.
SuckMyWang, Probably closer to Brazil
HipHoboHarold, While we are at it, the. The t doesn’t sound like a t. The h doesn’t sound like an h. The e doesn’t sound like an e.
None of the letters sound like how they should when looked at individually. I propose we change this. From now on, each letter gets pronounced as itself in the word the.
Kase, Teehee 🤭
psud, We used to have a letter for ‘th’ (thorn (Þ, þ)), but it was replaced by ‘th’. There are people trying to bring back, but I wonder if they just like typing þorn (thorn)
HipHoboHarold, Huh. I actually didn’t know that. Learned something new today.
Potatos_are_not_friends, Herb.
Phone.
Come at me Pronouncation nerds.
Kase, Erb (with a long e)
samus12345, 
creditCrazy, 
Let me give it a try “flip flop plop plop”. Still working on my salmonese.
mapiki, As someone who regularly mispronounces this as rhyming with almonds I feel a little attacked
I also say the following wrong: Ikea, Nutella, idea. Somehow my bilingual brain just gives up.
Sanyanov, At the same time, it’s not pronounced as “samon”
It’s either “saemon” or “semen” lol
Is English fucked? Yes, yes, absolutely yes.
DAMunzy, Um, Google search for: salmon definition gave the following result for pronunciation: /ˈsamən/ And the voice sounds like “samon”.
reverendsteveii, *They put sall-mon in the fish tacos, Hank. ¡SALL-MON!
Kolanaki, 
I can’t believe this is already here. That’s what I was gonna post!
octoperson, Can anyone say the s and the th in Isthmus? It’s making my tongue feel funny.
FlyingSquid, 
I always pronounce it that way.
Emerald, Image Transcription: Twitter Post
Jake Vig, @Jake_Vig
I Like Going To Walmart For Fun
You might as well go ahead and pronounce the “L” in “salmon.” Nothing matters anymore.
whatwhatwutyut, I’m confused on where the walmart line is coming from, am I missing something?
hydrospanner, Just spit balling, but maybe the program that does the transcription doesn’t just use the image, but instead scans the image, finds the Twitter account shown, and checks the tweet text in the image against the matching actual tweet.
And since it’s accessing the actual tweet, maybe that Walmart text is like a profile tag line or something that’s attached to the user?
whatwhatwutyut, I… I’m not convinced it’s a bot though. There are normal comments in the account history
GrammatonCleric, 
salman rushdie
murpium, lol yes! Someone who has actually watched Frisky Dingo!
selokichtli, (edited ) Yes! Pronounce your letters, don’t be weird! (I know this is not about this, but I’ll probably never be able to tell this to any anglophone.)
get_the_reference_, How should I say should? How should I talk talk? Should I talk to the Colonel about putting the scissors in the drawer?
wieson, Like shoulder.
Maybe English needs an accent mark for silence, like the Turkish ğ
selokichtli, “Talk” like in “calc” but the first letter is a “t”. “Should” as in “shoulder”, just without the “er”. And so on…
SuckMyWang, 🔫 always has been 🔫
tygerprints, Oh fine, let's just start pronouncing "recognize" as though there were actually a "G" in it then!! I mean where does the madness stop!!
Swedneck, 
as a swede whose accent is a hodgepodge of everything between scottish to RP to some vague average of american plus of course swenglish, i have spoken into the void and it spake back.
aj räckågnaiz de sällmån
tygerprints, (edited ) Thus spake Zarathrustra. (if I spelled that wrong -well, I'm an American). I'd rather not hear any voices out of the void - this whole thing makes me shiver, recalling my lifelong fear of the black void of space and the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey." (Shudders).
samus12345, I always have. How else is it pronounced? “Reckonize?”
matter, Yes, people often/usually drop the g in quick/casual speech, but most regions I have heard do pronounce it when speaking slower or more formally.
tygerprints, In America a lot of people say "reckonize." In fact, I never hear it pronounced as if there is an actual "g" in the word anymore. I think they're just imitating habits of others but I hope they know that, there really is a "g" in the word (if it comes to having to spell it).
samus12345, Do they also say “reckonition?”
Kase, Idk, I say it like reckignize. Can’t be bothered to open my jaw to pronounce the O. But I’m from oklahoma so it’s not my fault :)
FarFarAway, Or the t in exactly.
Actually that sort of annoys me…
tygerprints, Exackly! I reconize your problem. Now I'm off to go buy some jewluhry.
ThatWeirdGuy1001, 
Midwestern gang out here saying the l in palm
SendMePhotos, … Are you not supposed to?
ThatWeirdGuy1001, According to my English teacher who grew up in California no.
Palm is apparently not supposed to rhyme with calm
Kase, This was mega confusing at first bc I just realized I do not pronounce the L in palm or calm. So they do rhyme… but it’s like pom/com
smeg, Seeing what people with different accents think rhymes is wild. Calm, farm and palm all rhyme but sound nothing like com or pom!
can, Palm is apparently not supposed to rhyme with calm
That’s not really how things work. How did she think they were “supposed” to be pronounced?
ThatWeirdGuy1001, Like you’d pronounce pom poms
Uncle_Bagel, I pronounce both without the l. It just feels so clunky to say
SendMePhotos, But pom can also rhyme with palm. Same female vowel. 😂🙃
can, In my accent they’re similar but not the same.
smeg, It is, but not the way you think - you* don’t pronounce the L in either. Calm, palm, balm, farm, harm all rhyme.
*obviously you do, I speak nothing but the Queen’s!
niktemadur, (edited ) Now that is a Rubicon that I crossed ages ago.
get_the_reference_, I should have been saying it like that all along, but, you know, woulda, coulda, shoulda!
EmperorHenry, 
And pronounce aluminum the wrong way too.
And pronounce the letter H incorrectly! Why not?
LemmyKnowsBest, aluminum? It’s spelled straightforward phonetically. How could anybody botch that?
maccentric, Ask the Brits
ME0x01, 
Well have you ever thought of maybe, just maybe, it’s spelled as Aluminium
EmperorHenry, The way british people say is “Al-yoo-min-ee-um” Instead of the correct way “ah-loo-min-um”
Vuraniute, 
correct
they’re different dialects, they’re both correct
BeardedGingerWonder, Both say it how it’s spelt, it’s just spelt differently in British and American English.
samus12345, Or the “T” in “often!”
Oh, wait, lots of people do that already.
FlyingSquid, Which totally ruins the joke in The Pirates of Penzance.
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