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    Default Re: Do YOU pronounce Sigil with a hard or soft G?

    Quote Originally Posted by Caelestion View Post
    You think that offal and awful sound the same?
    For me:

    Offal is "oh-full", awful is "awe-full".

    Golf is "Gawlf".

    Opera is "ah-perr-uh" (ah-purr-uh?).

    Octopus is "ahk-toe-puss", or "ahk-tuh-puss" if I'm very tired.

    Octavian would be "ahk-tave-ian".


    Don't ask me to use IPA, the vowel system in that thing is a wretched mess missing half the vowel sounds I actually use (evidently they're "between sounds" / diphthongs, so use double-symbols... which seems very arbitrary given some of the sounds that they do give distinct symbols to... and every audio guide to IPA makes all the vowels sound like a stereotypical French guy from a Money Python sketch choking on a mouth full of marbles while trying to pronounce the sounds).
    Last edited by Max_Killjoy; 2021-02-24 at 04:45 PM.
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