Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

What is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?

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What is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?

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They pronounce it phonetically in France, which is where it came from.
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  I meant English dialects.

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