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LordMortis wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 6:56 pm Shit in'is (rarely use containerization for feces outside of the normal bathroom. Not to be confused with having unknown contents "Shit isinis'?)

Also not to be confused with "shit innit?" which is someone from the English west country identifying feces.

Isgrimnur wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 7:10 pm

Max Peck wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 5:35 pm They're spelled chiton, chitonous and chitonoid, but they're all pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove.

Isn't that the guy who played Doctor Strange?

Blackhawk wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:49 pm someone from the English west country

AKA, for a great many Americans, the 'pirate accent':

I can't watch the video because my officemate thinks I'm working, but I'm guessing that it comes (along with the eyepatch and pegleg trope) from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

Holman wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:40 am I can't watch the video because my officemate thinks I'm working, but I'm guessing that it comes (along with the eyepatch and pegleg trope) from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

Indeed, the so-called "pirate accent" primarily stems from the 1950 RKO-Disney British adaptation of Treasure Island. Actor Robert Newton's portrayal of Long John Silver featured a pronounced exaggeration of his English West Country accent, setting a standard for how pirates tend to be portrayed in popular culture ever since:

Anonymous Bosch wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:18 pm

GreenGoo wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:53 pm Pronunciation request:

Chitin.
Chitinous.
Chitinoid.

• Chitin: Pronounced as "KYE-tin," meaning the first syllable sounds like "kye," which rhymes with "sky," and the second syllable is pronounced like "tin," as in the metal.
• Chitinous: Pronounced as "KYE-tin-us," meaning it starts with the same "KYE" sound as in "chitin," followed by "tin," and ends with "us," as in "bus."
• Chitinoid: Pronounced as "KYE-tin-oid," again, it begins with "KYE," followed by "tin," and ends with "oid," as in "android."

Thanks.

Sorry, but for me it is always going to be CHI-tin, rhymes with sky-bin. I literally don't care if it is technically incorrect, it sounds right to me.

LOL, I can think and say "kye-tin" but it is always "chye-tin-us" even though I really know it shouldn't be.

I've never had a problem with the word because I first encountered it in the Chitin microgame.

IIRC, the correct pronunciation was emphasized on the first page of the rules.

Luckily, I first encountered the word in a science class, so no changes necessary (unlike wyvern, which took me years to fix my pronunciation of.)

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Blackhawk wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 1:52 pm Luckily, I first encountered the word in a science class, so no changes necessary (unlike wyvern, which took me years to fix my pronunciation of.)

You mean it's not WUR-vin?

Why, Vern?