People who pronounce pronunciation as proNOUNciation should have their passports removed.
February 9, 2026 at 8:55 PM
People who pronounce pronunciation as proNOUNciation should have their passports removed.
![Sketches of Freya, showing off her favorite (fictional) movies.
Really an excuse to draw various outfits, like a sci-fi-underwear-and-guns look ["Escape From Planet Venom"] or a fantasy barely-there priestess look ["Abadox II".] The initial sketch for the previous pic is here too ["Killotta U, pt.4"] -- see, it IS a low-budget slasher!
All drawn in blues and greens, Freya can look badass as well as cute!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sbcdj63xcaifrbxlytpatov2/bafkreicddlkb653j6mtyelbmvglazy6jq6jko3p6snpagnlz7dcv43nnlq@jpeg)
e-num.
While I'm doing pronounciation hot takes, it's pronounced "gif" as in "gift", not "jiff", "char" not "care", "vye" not "vee-eye", and "ed", not "erectile dysfunction". No, I don't care if Ken Thompson or anyone else thought otherwise.
While I'm doing pronounciation hot takes, it's pronounced "gif" as in "gift", not "jiff", "char" not "care", "vye" not "vee-eye", and "ed", not "erectile dysfunction". No, I don't care if Ken Thompson or anyone else thought otherwise.
February 11, 2026 at 4:42 PM
e-num.
While I'm doing pronounciation hot takes, it's pronounced "gif" as in "gift", not "jiff", "char" not "care", "vye" not "vee-eye", and "ed", not "erectile dysfunction". No, I don't care if Ken Thompson or anyone else thought otherwise.
While I'm doing pronounciation hot takes, it's pronounced "gif" as in "gift", not "jiff", "char" not "care", "vye" not "vee-eye", and "ed", not "erectile dysfunction". No, I don't care if Ken Thompson or anyone else thought otherwise.
Yes it is, but it doesn't sound like Finnish at all, but there's some similarities in grammar and pronounciation 👀
February 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Yes it is, but it doesn't sound like Finnish at all, but there's some similarities in grammar and pronounciation 👀
I come from an uneducated family and a time with no online pronounciation guides. Once, in a gasthaus in Germany, I amused my other journalist friends by saying “apropos” as it is spelled.
February 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I come from an uneducated family and a time with no online pronounciation guides. Once, in a gasthaus in Germany, I amused my other journalist friends by saying “apropos” as it is spelled.
hey chat i made a shoddy badge haha
ft my new logo by @squishablemoon.bsky.social !
oh my god im just noticing the messed up texture of the badge holder haha
ft my new logo by @squishablemoon.bsky.social !
oh my god im just noticing the messed up texture of the badge holder haha
February 13, 2026 at 4:11 PM
hey chat i made a shoddy badge haha
ft my new logo by @squishablemoon.bsky.social !
oh my god im just noticing the messed up texture of the badge holder haha
ft my new logo by @squishablemoon.bsky.social !
oh my god im just noticing the messed up texture of the badge holder haha
Honestly same 🤝. A fun fact about Aegir: The pronounciation of it sounds exactly like "Eier" in German. Eier of course means 'eggs' BUT it is also very much the most common slang word for testicles. So yeah, to my ears the guy regularly happily declares that he is Ferdinand of Balls 😔✌️
February 9, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Honestly same 🤝. A fun fact about Aegir: The pronounciation of it sounds exactly like "Eier" in German. Eier of course means 'eggs' BUT it is also very much the most common slang word for testicles. So yeah, to my ears the guy regularly happily declares that he is Ferdinand of Balls 😔✌️
Fascinated to know what ridiculous way he's forcing his pronounciation to make it sound in any way dirty or rude?
February 2, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Fascinated to know what ridiculous way he's forcing his pronounciation to make it sound in any way dirty or rude?
There is a study from a couple of years ago showung that ca 30% L1 Swedish speakers who started learning French as adolecsents or older when moving to Franc, actually are taken to be French L1 speakers by actual French L1 speakers. So not even pronounciation is impossible, if one would like too.
February 4, 2026 at 4:48 PM
There is a study from a couple of years ago showung that ca 30% L1 Swedish speakers who started learning French as adolecsents or older when moving to Franc, actually are taken to be French L1 speakers by actual French L1 speakers. So not even pronounciation is impossible, if one would like too.
The planet Kolybel is named after the Kolybel Empire which conqured it (except Almasa, still took slaves) and installed the councils 120y after Project Zeroes. Koly (Holy pronounciation), and bel (home). Named planet after themselves for hegemony. Previous names erased.
First Designated: DA0T-3CL.2
First Designated: DA0T-3CL.2
Welcome to a new month of Monthly Worldbuilders! Here's your first #FebruaryWorldbuilders prompt. This week I'm asking about the physical world you are writing about/creating/whatever you're doing. Does your world have a name? Is it a planet? A country? Something else?
February 1, 2026 at 1:29 PM
The planet Kolybel is named after the Kolybel Empire which conqured it (except Almasa, still took slaves) and installed the councils 120y after Project Zeroes. Koly (Holy pronounciation), and bel (home). Named planet after themselves for hegemony. Previous names erased.
First Designated: DA0T-3CL.2
First Designated: DA0T-3CL.2
don't know why I just remembered this but I met an Italian guy whose pronounciation of QR code sounded it like he was saying queer code. what is the queer code? please the queer code for the internet. I can't use the queer code.
February 1, 2026 at 3:37 PM
don't know why I just remembered this but I met an Italian guy whose pronounciation of QR code sounded it like he was saying queer code. what is the queer code? please the queer code for the internet. I can't use the queer code.
ur fucking kidding me the actual pronounciation of estradiol is the one that rhymes with crocodile thats fucked up
January 31, 2026 at 2:25 AM
ur fucking kidding me the actual pronounciation of estradiol is the one that rhymes with crocodile thats fucked up
Explaining Worcestershire Sauce AND its pronounciation!
January 29, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Explaining Worcestershire Sauce AND its pronounciation!
what an absurdly stacked card fox kids uk had right from the start (warning: video contains fucked up southern england pronounciation of "samurai")
Fox Kids UK Pre Launch Continuity October 18th 1996 : Disney : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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January 28, 2026 at 12:25 AM
what an absurdly stacked card fox kids uk had right from the start (warning: video contains fucked up southern england pronounciation of "samurai")
I so frequently get lost in a good book and more often than not those books inspire me to create too!
The Wanderer's Bookshop is one of those creations, inspired ans sharing vibes with:
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
Welcome to the Hynam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
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#booksky #zinemonth
The Wanderer's Bookshop is one of those creations, inspired ans sharing vibes with:
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
Welcome to the Hynam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
1/
#booksky #zinemonth
January 28, 2026 at 1:13 PM
I so frequently get lost in a good book and more often than not those books inspire me to create too!
The Wanderer's Bookshop is one of those creations, inspired ans sharing vibes with:
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
Welcome to the Hynam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
1/
#booksky #zinemonth
The Wanderer's Bookshop is one of those creations, inspired ans sharing vibes with:
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
Welcome to the Hynam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
1/
#booksky #zinemonth
The homonyms in Swedish are almost a meme at this point cause one word usually means 4 things in Swedish and it only changes with slight pronounciation changes but the word is kept the same and I think its neat Japanese does the same.
January 25, 2026 at 12:15 AM
The homonyms in Swedish are almost a meme at this point cause one word usually means 4 things in Swedish and it only changes with slight pronounciation changes but the word is kept the same and I think its neat Japanese does the same.
Genuinely hate when people demand you to pronounce loan words like the original language as if the adapted pronounciation is "disrespectful"
January 22, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Genuinely hate when people demand you to pronounce loan words like the original language as if the adapted pronounciation is "disrespectful"
Dear Americans. WHY IS IT SO HARD TO STUDY UP THE PRONOUNCIATION OF EXPECTED NAMES IN ADVANCE?!?!!!! Especially in such an international year? Embarrassing. #Oscars
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Dear Americans. WHY IS IT SO HARD TO STUDY UP THE PRONOUNCIATION OF EXPECTED NAMES IN ADVANCE?!?!!!! Especially in such an international year? Embarrassing. #Oscars
Excited to share the beautiful cover art by @artofjoshuaclarke.bsky.social, who has brought the magical travelling, bigger on the inside bookshop to life, with the tree that underpins it all beautifully featured.
Come visit The Wanderer's Bookshop tinyurl.com/BookshopRPG
#zinemonth #booksky 1/
Come visit The Wanderer's Bookshop tinyurl.com/BookshopRPG
#zinemonth #booksky 1/
January 23, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Excited to share the beautiful cover art by @artofjoshuaclarke.bsky.social, who has brought the magical travelling, bigger on the inside bookshop to life, with the tree that underpins it all beautifully featured.
Come visit The Wanderer's Bookshop tinyurl.com/BookshopRPG
#zinemonth #booksky 1/
Come visit The Wanderer's Bookshop tinyurl.com/BookshopRPG
#zinemonth #booksky 1/
Honestly, the article switches between German and English pronounciation every second sentence to make it fit their narrative.
E.g. "Sozi" really is never spoken with a short 'o' sound, but a very long one, etc.
It seems very much made up and reverse-engineered.
E.g. "Sozi" really is never spoken with a short 'o' sound, but a very long one, etc.
It seems very much made up and reverse-engineered.
January 21, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Honestly, the article switches between German and English pronounciation every second sentence to make it fit their narrative.
E.g. "Sozi" really is never spoken with a short 'o' sound, but a very long one, etc.
It seems very much made up and reverse-engineered.
E.g. "Sozi" really is never spoken with a short 'o' sound, but a very long one, etc.
It seems very much made up and reverse-engineered.
cringing at my pronounciation of "interviewing" as "inner-viewing", like Joe Rogan can see inside your soul
January 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM
cringing at my pronounciation of "interviewing" as "inner-viewing", like Joe Rogan can see inside your soul
Whatever pronounciation works for you.
She's named after the praline chocolate.
"Praliné" is just decorative stylization of her name, made to look fancy.
Properly read, her name "Praline" would be "Pra-leen" when read in French.
But "Praline", read in English as "Prae-leene" or "Pra-line" works too.
She's named after the praline chocolate.
"Praliné" is just decorative stylization of her name, made to look fancy.
Properly read, her name "Praline" would be "Pra-leen" when read in French.
But "Praline", read in English as "Prae-leene" or "Pra-line" works too.
January 17, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Whatever pronounciation works for you.
She's named after the praline chocolate.
"Praliné" is just decorative stylization of her name, made to look fancy.
Properly read, her name "Praline" would be "Pra-leen" when read in French.
But "Praline", read in English as "Prae-leene" or "Pra-line" works too.
She's named after the praline chocolate.
"Praliné" is just decorative stylization of her name, made to look fancy.
Properly read, her name "Praline" would be "Pra-leen" when read in French.
But "Praline", read in English as "Prae-leene" or "Pra-line" works too.
Emilia Clarke has admitted feeling "really pissed" at the expert who developed Game of Thrones' fictional languages, after reading that he thought her Dothraki pronounciation "sucked." https://bit.ly/4qNBhPe
January 14, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Emilia Clarke has admitted feeling "really pissed" at the expert who developed Game of Thrones' fictional languages, after reading that he thought her Dothraki pronounciation "sucked." https://bit.ly/4qNBhPe
a lil emot of excited Elena giving a greeting~ :3💜
January 15, 2026 at 7:06 PM
a lil emot of excited Elena giving a greeting~ :3💜
I loved todays episode of Word Unravelled. Mostly because I for once knew more than @jesszafarris.bsky.social and @robwords.bsky.social
Felt good, not gonna lie.
I am considering starting a flame war against Rob on his pronounciation of troll.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZw...
Felt good, not gonna lie.
I am considering starting a flame war against Rob on his pronounciation of troll.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZw...
What did the first internet troll write?
YouTube video by Words Unravelled
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January 14, 2026 at 10:56 AM
I loved todays episode of Word Unravelled. Mostly because I for once knew more than @jesszafarris.bsky.social and @robwords.bsky.social
Felt good, not gonna lie.
I am considering starting a flame war against Rob on his pronounciation of troll.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZw...
Felt good, not gonna lie.
I am considering starting a flame war against Rob on his pronounciation of troll.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZw...