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Just letting off some steam. And grammar humor.
What G in onion??? Where do they put that???
If you listen a lot of people say ung-yun instead of un-yun.
What G in onion??? Where do they put that???
Linguistically, if I may be so bold: The ‘G’ should actually be a ‘J’ and that makes pronunciation of the word onion sound like ‘onjion’. If one went with the letter ‘G’ it would sound more like some weird antiquated firearm, something like”ungiun.”
Now for a bit of “real” enlightenment; there are more specific linguistic formations in the English language I would like to draw your attention to. There are two mid-western terms, aunt and wash, that apply here.
To understand how to pronounce these words properly there are two pronunciation rules that apply. Not everyone is aware of these rules so let me explain:
The word aunt uses a little known rule of a silent ‘U’. Hence, the way you actually pronounce “aunt” is to phonetically say “ant.” This little known ‘U’ rule is called, “The ‘U’ is seen but is silent” rule.”
Now in the case of the word wash, there is an entirely different structural rule. In this case the word wash has the, “unseen but not silent ‘R’ rule.” Therefore, the correct pronunciation of the word “wash” is to actually verbalize the ‘R’ in front of the ‘sh’ sound. This means that if the ‘R’ rule were not enforced it would be spelled “warsh.”
To make this easy to understand a simple sentence using these words might be useful. Using the proper structure it might go something like, “My Ant wants me to warsh her car for her.”
I hope this is helpful.
See my #1502 for nonsense in response to this head-scratching discussion. ⚠️ sigh