They had dined on horse meat, horse cheese, horse black pudding, horse d'oeuvres, and a thin beer that Rincewind didn't want to speculate about.
— Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2025
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Every letter after the first is completely unnecessary.
Niche drives me nuts as a French speaker. It is not Nitch. It is Knee-shh. I will die on this hill
As a non-French speaker, I completely agree with you. If I use a borrowed word, I do my best to pronounce it like a native speaker would.
As a colonizer, I consider it my duty to butcher borrowed/foreign words. You should hear me say bolognese.
Baloneys?
Buh-LOG-nees.
It's an Italian sauce. Actually pronounced like bolonays
Ouch.
Could y'all please stop dieing on hills all the time?! I love hiking, but all the corpses are really disturbing.
Nietzsche
Here you go, now nobody's happy
That K is unnecessary in Knee-shh
Make it just a little bit worse, that œ hits the spot:
d'œuvre
The word ok expecting me to spell it out instead of pronouncing it like oak.
I mean...okay, that's fair.
Capicola
Gabagool
Good name for an equine cleaner.
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