Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Oh shit!

idgi, is this like the chip & dale = indiana jones + magnum pi thing?

second image a bit of a reach, and isn't yellow the stereotypical raincoat color?

If you look more closely, the jacket in the second one appears to be the exact same one that Feldman wore. Given that Spielberg produced Goonies, I assume this was an intentional easter egg.

that british people doin't say lon-ji-tude, they say 'long-i-tude'

i had no idea anyone pronounced it lon-ji-tude

Tom Delongitude

Positive Mental Longitude

i had no idea anyone pronounced it lon-ji-tude

Lon-ji-tude??!?!? More like Lol-ji-tude.

Lol. Was just reading about the Longitude Act.

Lon-ji-tude is too difficult to say if you pronounce -tude as -tewd, but I assume you don't do that in the US anyway?

How do you pronounce chaise longitude?

Wait, -tude and -tewd are pronounced differently?

here we go

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Dewde.

that british people doin't say lon-ji-tude, they say 'long-i-tude'

!!!

Nearly as bad as 'leftenant' imo.

it's because it's very long, it's the longest of all tudes.

In Romanian, it's lung with a hard g but longitudine with a soft g, just like in NA English.

I've never actually heard anyone say 'leftenant' irl tbh so I'm dubious about how common its use is in the UK.

i love long tudes

I have (in Southern England).

xp

It seems very upper class to me.

I have heard it a great deal in the radio 4 dramas I was raised on.

Indeed!

Anglophone Canadians say "left-tennant" too, right?

officially yes, although it's one of those things where some people will say "lou" and will inevitably be corrected by a nerd

I would say it in reference to a specific official. If I'm talking about the rank or the position in general, I would say LOO-tenant, though LEF-tenant sometimes slips out probably, which is the case for a lot of words that I was taught was the right way to say but for whatever reason I try to adjust my pronunciation to the American way (I work with Americans mostly, and it feels weird to sound different)

I say "LEF-tenant, er, LOO-tenant, ummm, which is supposed to be the UK way and which is the American way? Oh shit I don't remember, this is stupid, sorry"

Ha! I feel that way about the "i" pronunciations -- missile, anti-, via, etc. I gave up. The only one I know is Canadian is intestine (rhymes with line)

I say leftenant, but make a random exception for lieutenant pigeon (I have no idea why)

LOL I somehow feel we've had this conversation before?

moving to Canada has destroyed my confidence about saying the word "process"

Anglophone Canadians say "left-tennant" too, right?

Elsewhere in the commonwealth too.

As a Torontonian, I pronounce "process" PROCK-ess.

'LEF-tenant' is virtually unheard of in Montreal. Yet another way in which our English is more Americanized than that of other Canadians, I suppose.

wouldn't it be more because pronouncing lieutenant as "lef-tenant" is super bizarre if you know nearly any French?

Hah, that too, probably.

I'm new enough to Canada to not be sure if Halfway is messing with me or not

Weirdly enough, the lef-/leuf- comes from old French, if I'm not mistaken.

Fwiw I tend to say 'pro-cess' instead of 'prawcess'. And 'dah-ta' instead of 'day-ta'.

xp a lieutenant is literally a place (lieu) holder (tenant). In Old French lieu was leu, which I don't think was pronounced 'lef', but I'm not a medievalist, so don't quote me on that.

l'ouef tennant

Je suis l'œuf tenant
Je suis le morse

:D

There's a bit about it in this lef:

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/lieutenant

Except the 'f' was 'v' in old French and the British interpreted it as an 'f'

'It is difficult to explain where the f in the British pronunciation comes from.'

Indeed.

'Probably, at some point before the 19th century, the u at the end of Old French lieu was read and pronounced as a v, and the v later became an f.'

By the British, though, right?

Sometimes I say "PROAK-ess", though, when amongst new Canadians, to make them feel at home.

Leff-tenant is just the British upper classes pronouncing things like fools to distinguish themselves from the lower orders, I'm sure there are other examples but they're not springing immediately to mind.

Would Marquis be an example of this? Pronounced Mar-kwiss rather than the more common (in my experience) Mar-kee

my sense of the british is they hate trying to pronounce loanwords correctly, cf. garridge, Quick-sote, Mar-kwiss, tay-co