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Anecdote: the word ‘vehicle’ is referenced aty day job a lot. I had a PM who always, always said ‘vee-hickle’ and I honestly always thought he was full of shit.

On day when he was really mad about $(thing I predicted) he just comes out and says ‘vehicle’ like it’s spelled.

I don’t remember feeling smug or annoyed, mostly just kind of bummed at the farce.

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> he just comes out and says ‘vehicle’ like it’s spelled

What do you mean by this?

In what what is "ve hicle" not pronouncing it as it's spelled but "ve icle" is? Isn't the one including an h more faithful?

I'm a non-native speaker I remember I couldn't figure out how to pronounce "vehicle" just from how it's spelled. It's not like I pronounced it wrong (as is often the case with other words), I just couldn't figure out how to pronounce it at all until I looked it up.

Edit: I guess my point is that "as it's spelled" may be non obvious in case of vehicle.

That's partially my point too: pronouncing something "as it's spelled" is meaningless in English - most of the time there's more than one "obvious" pronunciation. And the right one could be a less obvious one.

> the right one

One of the many right ones.

I insist on calling Roblox “rob-l-ox” when talking to my kids. It’s a dumb joke, but it also emphasises to them that spelling is a guide and not always a useful one.

I meant he pronounced it two different ways when he was too angry to fake it. Was that not apparent in the post, or were you just being a prick?

Are you aware that both pronunciations are correct?

'Cause boy are you going to be surprised when you find out about "accents".

It wasn’t the annunciation, It was the em-phasis.

My point stands.

I learned "vee-hickle" from the TV show M.A.S.H

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