Thanasis Kinias on Nostr: One of the weirdest hypercorrect mispronunciations to me is when anglophones ...
One of the weirdest hypercorrect mispronunciations to me is when anglophones pronounce ‘dacha’ like it’s German – or as if it were ‘dakha’. Like... that <ch> is just like in English!
(The all-time funniest for me, though, is saying ‘coup de grace’ as ‘coup de gras’...)
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