weird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 8 months agoThe guy needs an advocatesub.wetshaving.socialimagemessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up1472arrow-down19
arrow-up1463arrow-down1imageThe guy needs an advocatesub.wetshaving.socialweird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square16linkfedilink
minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 months agoIt’s a homophone. Spiritual Soul, as opposed to sole of your shoe. Or a flounder. Or the capital of South Korea. Or the one and only.
minus-squaremorgunkornlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoTIL, i pronounced those words differently, probably picked them up separately from hearing them said by a US person and a UK person
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoNow I want to know the two pronunciations.
minus-squaremorgunkornlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoSole more like “sowl”/“soh-ool”, a bit like Phil Collins does in Another in Paradise https://youtu.be/Qt2mbGP6vFI?t=112 Soul/Seoul: sōl, long o sound without inflexion
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoOne and only? Somehow it made me remember Seal and now I’ve got Kiss from a Rose stuck in my head.
It’s a homophone. Spiritual Soul, as opposed to sole of your shoe. Or a flounder. Or the capital of South Korea. Or the one and only.
TIL, i pronounced those words differently, probably picked them up separately from hearing them said by a US person and a UK person
Now I want to know the two pronunciations.
Sole more like “sowl”/“soh-ool”, a bit like Phil Collins does in Another in Paradise https://youtu.be/Qt2mbGP6vFI?t=112
Soul/Seoul: sōl, long o sound without inflexion
One and only? Somehow it made me remember Seal and now I’ve got Kiss from a Rose stuck in my head.