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Glad I'm not the only one who reads it that way.
by taddevries 4y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who reads it that way.
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y agoJ cough?
- HelloNurse 4y agoJack off, I'm afraid.
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y agoInteresting, I wonder which type of English speakers would see that as their initial hunch for pronunciation.
- tgv 4y agoWhile Oscar Wilde would undoubtedly have something witty to say about that, I guess it's a matter of stress: if you read it as a word and assume stress on the (invisible) first vowel, it's almost inevitable: juh-cof.
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y agoBut we dont say juh sahn for JSON? Hence why Jcough seemed intuitive.
- tgv 4y agoLanguage is not very deterministic. An unknown word can remind you of more than one other word, which can influence the way you pronounce it, certainly in English where pronunciation is so irregular. That’s not a fact of course, just a possible factor.
- beepbooptheory 4y agoGuess you could say if its a 'jack off' here, its 'jiss on' there.
- HelloNurse 4y agoThere is a very, very small difference between placing a slight break in the middle of the acronym as J-COF or as JC-OF, because there's a major unwritten vowel sound after J in any case.