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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I believe that "demon" and "daemon" both share the same pronunciation. "day-mun" is technically incorrect, though still widely accepted.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

no widely accepted pronounciation is incorrect

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

so it "ur mum" and "yo mama"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

archaeology, orthopaedics, paediatrics, encyclopaedia, etc.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Those last 3 aren’t American English

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

so? where do you think English came from?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

English carries a lot of information in vowels, making it concise.

In this case, it’s natural for English speakers to pronounce words with different meanings differently, to disambiguate them.