Homophones

[wzl@lemmy.world]

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[edangrey@sh.itjust.works]

Is this a pronunciation thing? Those words are not homophones where I am

[armoredthirteen@lemmy.zip]

Most everyone I know would pronounce them the same. The Pacific northwest hates pronouncing the letter 't', either turning it into a 'd' sound, slurring past it, or at the end of words dropping it entirely

[darkcloud@lemmy.world]

I feel like spelling it 'Ladder' the second time would have made it work better, leaving the reader to figure out what happened ("homophones" are after all mentioned at the end).

[gregor@gregtech.eu]

How to sound American tutorial

[spankmonkey@lemmy.world]

That would ruin the joke, since speech bubbles match what is literally said.

If latter and ladder were actually homophones it would word as is.

[spankmonkey@lemmy.world]

Nah, we pronunce them very differently here in the midwest. They sound as different as matter and madder.

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

I thought the same but reread the comic text carefully. It says not the latter.

[jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works]

America is big lol

[mannycalavera@feddit.uk]

Those don't sound like homophones unless you're from Bwoooaastaaan.

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

I've never been to Boston, but been to a few major cities in north America and everywhere I've been would pronounce these the same.

[viking_hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

A bit, yeah.

[vindictivejudge@lemmy.world]

I'm from the PNW. I do pronounce the T sound in latter. I also put more emphasis on the first syllable than I do when pronouncing ladder.

[grammarpolice@lemmy.world]

Not as big as my dick

[klemptor@startrek.website]

I'm from NJ and there's no audible difference between ladder and latter here. Both have a D sound.

[ayyy@sh.itjust.works]

Robert Evans enjoyer detected

[klemptor@startrek.website]

Interesting... I'm from NJ and there's no audible difference between ladder and latter here, nor between madder and matter. However, my parents are both from different parts of NJ than where I was raised, and they do pronounce them differently!

[klemptor@startrek.website]

I'm from NJ and they sound the exact same here.

[whostosay@lemmy.world]

Alright, settle down

[odigo2020@lemmy.zip]

Whaddya mean?