Homophones

[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?

[ieightpi@lemmy.world]

Okay so maybe not homophones but if there was a blaring fire behind you, you mind mishear the person below. It's still funny.

[droans@lemmy.world]

I'm also in the Midwest (Indiana) and have the opposite experience.

They might not be perfect homophones but you're rarely using a full hard T sound. Usually something between a d and t sound.

[sergio@slrpnk.net]

I swear ta god I once read a story about this guy, around the time of Turing and Bletchley Park, who was an expert parachutist. His boss had a 4th floor office. And every time this parachutist left his boss' office, he'd just jump out the 4th floor window because even without a parachute, he knew how to land without hurting himself.

(I'm not intentionally making this up, but unfortunately I can't find any references online to it....)

[chronographs@lemmy.zip]

Same in the northeast

[slazer2au@lemmy.world]

Funny, one of the connections categories for today was homophones.

[georgimusprime@lemmy.world]

This ishomophonobia, plain and simple

[anticorp@lemmy.world]

When someone asks you from the other room if you want something, do not say "yeah". Say only "yes" or "no". Yeah can be indistinguishable from nah.

[fattony@lemmy.world]

Could someone explain? I'm too homophobic for this.

[mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world]

You need to use the FOMO phone. It's in the lader