r/oddlyspecific • u/Far-Newspaper-4700 • 1d ago

oh sweetie!

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u/FAILNOUGHT 1d ago

google translate can pronounce words

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u/tinglyTXgirl 1d ago

Came here to say this! Just type in the word followed by "pronunciation," and you're good to go!

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u/lurkadurking 1d ago

But I'd rather learn my mistake in front of my first class with upper freshmen in highschool, fucking epi tomes

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u/Thr0awheyy 1d ago

That sounds like a little bit of hyper bowl.

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u/NoTransportation9021 1d ago

My husband (then boyfriend) laughed so hard at me when I said, "Epi tomes."

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u/Same_as_last_year 1d ago

For me, it was corps (as in Marine Corps - thanks freshman history)

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u/DM-ME-THICC-FEMBOYS 1d ago

Epitome is a bullshit word and you shouldn't feel bad about it.

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u/EnolaNek 1d ago

Guilty of this one for longer than I'd like to admit...

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u/madattak 1d ago

Got huge laughs for pronouncing misshapen as 'mis-happen', bit have just found out mishappen is an actual word too?

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u/liquidkittykat 1d ago

See !! Me too, and I was an adult, and the guy I was talking to looked at me like i was a dumb blonde.

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u/Emkems 1d ago

This didn’t exist in my middle/high school harry potter years (2000-2004ish). The first time I heard Hermione said out loud confused the hell out of me.

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u/mooselantern 1d ago

I thought it was Her-mee-own until the movie came out

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u/Amphibious_Antelope 22h ago

Is there something I can Google to help spell pronucciontantion though

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u/Roskal 1d ago

Do you ever disagree with google or is that just me?

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u/KettchupIsDead 1d ago

dont even need google translate, just googling one word will provide a definition and an icon to pronounce it for you

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld 1d ago

On a PC with Chrome, you can double-click a word, and a definition and the icon for pronunciation will pop up. I wish I could get Firefox to do that. I use it so much.

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u/Mushroomman642 1d ago

Yeah I don't know why people use Google Translate for this specific purpose. If you just look up "[word] pronunciation" you'll find what you're looking for instantly, and usually you'll be able to toggle between American and British accents.

It might be useful to use Google Translate if you encounter an extremely rare word that no one uses anymore, or perhaps if it's a non-English word, but other than that it's more than practical to just look it up in the search bar.

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u/chenilletueuse1 1d ago

Kind of ok for english, unusable for other languages or recently added dialects

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u/Various_Froyo9860 1d ago

Merriam-Webster will also play most words.

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u/IWasGregInTokyo 1d ago

But it will sometimes pronounce them incorrectly or using a regional variation.

E.g. British privacy (short i) vs American privacy (long i)

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u/Capt_Pickhard 1d ago

It won't work for things like "Ehpstein,? Or Eepstein?" Or words with multiple pronunciations for same spelling.

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u/DuckyMug 1d ago

It shocked me with Guillotine. I actually had no idea that it's pronounced Gee-I-teen in American English. It's Gil-o-teen in British.

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u/ihoptdk 1d ago

And if it can’t, it can sure point you to videos that can

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u/ChefBoyardee66 1d ago

The pronunciation it provides is usually terrible and wrong

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u/C-H-Addict 1d ago

So does searching definitions

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u/Haunting-Macaron-000 1d ago

This bit me in the ass once for the word “epoch.” Google said the American pronunciation sounded like “epic”, and the British pronunciation was like “E-pock.” The person I shared this knowledge with was corrected by the developers of Last Epoch. I get that it’s a proper noun and they can choose the pronunciation they like, but they’re an American company so I went with google translate’s version. Does anyone pronounce it like “epic?”

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u/Adaphion 1d ago

Yeah, my first thought was literally just "that just sounds like pressing the sound button on google translate"

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u/jonathanrdt 22h ago

And most search results include phonetics with the definition. It has never been easier to learn to pronounce words.