I’ve always pronounced the word “Southern” to rhyme with howthurn. I know most people say it like “suthurn” instead. I didn’t realize that the way I pronounce it is considered weird until recently!

  • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Et cetera is similarly “et ketera”, unless you’re using Italianate ecclesiastical pronunciation. Then it’s “et chetera”, hard ch like church in English.

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      5 days ago

      Nice ! have you studied Latin ? I studied very shortly but my interest piqued only after that brief period

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        5 days ago

        Only bit at uni and that was over two decades ago. I only use what I learned to produce technically correct yet insufferable Latin pronunciations to lovingly harass friends and family.