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minus-squareysjet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·3 days agoNah, this is wrong. In british english, it’s pronounced EE-pock. American it’s generally pronounced eh-pock. In no way is it ever pronounced ‘epic’.
minus-squaremrgoosmoos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agowhew thank fuck, I didn’t catch the dropdown for american vs British when searched it
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 days agoWhohhh was gonna say top level comment’s wrong but… https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epoch First pronunciation’s super “epic”, second’s what we know …hmmm OK, this is indeed a little more epic: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epic But come on! Listen back to back! I’m not linguisticy enough to know exactly but that ə is certainly not an i… just wouldn’t recognize the difference in many contexts I’m thinking
minus-squareysjet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoThat website’s pronunciation of ə is super weird. It should be more of an ‘uh’ sound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel Anyway, the pronunciation using ə isn’t common even in the US, not sure what merriem webster is smoking, here’s cambridge: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/epoch
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Nah, this is wrong. In british english, it’s pronounced EE-pock. American it’s generally pronounced eh-pock. In no way is it ever pronounced ‘epic’.
whew thank fuck, I didn’t catch the dropdown for american vs British when searched it
Whohhh was gonna say top level comment’s wrong but…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epoch
First pronunciation’s super “epic”, second’s what we know
…hmmm OK, this is indeed a little more epic:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epic
But come on! Listen back to back! I’m not linguisticy enough to know exactly but that ə is certainly not an i… just wouldn’t recognize the difference in many contexts I’m thinking
That website’s pronunciation of ə is super weird. It should be more of an ‘uh’ sound.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel
Anyway, the pronunciation using ə isn’t common even in the US, not sure what merriem webster is smoking, here’s cambridge: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/epoch