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Interesting. DALL-E, Dalai (https://cocktailpeanut.github.io/dalai/), and now Dolly are all pronounced the same way.

It feels like there should be an xkcd for this.

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AFAIK DALL-E is pronounced as Dalí, as in Salvador Dalí.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD

I figured it was a reference to the Dalai Lama (which doesn't invalidate your comment, since that's also pronounced like Dalí). LLM -> Llama -> Dalai Lama

Hmm. Is Salvador Dalí pronounced differently than Dolly or Dalai? The wikipedia page has "dah-lee" as the phonetic, and https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+salvador+dali sounds the same as https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+dalai+lama. So it seems like all three are identical.

The emphasis in Dalí is on the second syllable, which is at least different from Dolly. I've always pronounced Dalai Lama the same as I would Dolly Lama, but Cambridge dictionary is saying it should be Da-lay in both US and UK pronunciations.

Tangentially, it seems like most of the results for both searches were autogenerated with TTS programs. I wonder if our pronunciations will shift towards TTS mistakes over time. Probably not, these videos only have a few thousand views, but neat if true.

Dalí has the stress on the last syllable, hence the accent (but Dall-e probably not). In my native language Dalai is pronounced "Da-lie", like another comment says above. TIL Dolly is pronounced so similarly. I thought the Do sounded like Doberman, but apparently not.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolly

I thought "Dalai" pronounced "Dall Eye" rhymes with "Shall I" "Dali" pronounced "Dahl eee" rhymes with "Carly"

Interesting. According to Google, it's a British ("Da-lie") vs. American ("Da-lee") difference.

This is all very weird to me because I've always pronounced Dalai as "Dah-lay".

Dalí has an accent at the end, which has the emphasis in the last letter. Dalai does not. They sound very different. “dah-lee” vs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JhFbvuKn45w

Handy also to think off WALL-E. At least that where my assumption came from.

It's quite clearly a reference to WALL-E the environmentally conscious robot, which is pronounced as you'd expect. I like to think of it as DALL-E the surrealist robot painter.

I totally failed to make that connection! Was that the intended reference? What's the link to WALL-E?

WALL-E is a robot.

That is exactly my interpretation. Both wall-e and Dalí. I think we are in agreement.

Wow, just discovered that the American pronunciation for Dalai Lama is Da-lee. Well, that's a discovery.

This is like when Khan Academy came out and there was a guy online saying it's a terrible brand because it sounds like Con Academy which it doesn't in my dialect.

Took a while to get it.

How do you say Khan?

Kãn / k-ä-n, A like in “father”

I found this which matches how I say it (as an Indian) https://www.howtopronounce.com/khan/4145893

It's the KH sound that doesn't really exist in English hence many get it wrong.

The KH is one thing, but for "con"-fusion (hah!), it's also about the "higher" "caan" vs "cawn", which is a very subtle difference.

Are they? (Not sarcastic, I'm not native and I wouldn't pronounce them all that similar at first sight)

As a native speaker, no, there's hardly any consensus I've seen about how to pronounce them. Certainly there are trends. But I pronounce Dalai somewhere between "Dah-lay" and "Dah-lie", and DALL-E sorta like Dolly ("Dah-lee"), but with a deliberate pause ("Dahl Ee").

I guess after carcinisation comes dolly-fication...

But I do like the hang for whimsical naming schemes in that field. First sesame street characters, now apparently everything sheep...

> are all pronounced the same way

No they're not.

What could go wrong

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