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minus-squareVelypso@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 days agoThe pronunciation guide of a dictionary is pretty fuckin esoteric at this point. I was educated in the 80s and they still didn’t teach us how to pronounce words using the dictionary.
minus-squareHurricaneLiz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoSame with the 80s. My Gramma who was a school teacher in 1933 taught me out of a 100 yr old dictionary. In all the times I’ve moved, I’ve managed to hold onto that huge, leather-bound book.
minus-squareit's not often that shit just works@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI rejected those lessons after they dropped this on my desk: /ə/
The pronunciation guide of a dictionary is pretty fuckin esoteric at this point.
I was educated in the 80s and they still didn’t teach us how to pronounce words using the dictionary.
Same with the 80s. My Gramma who was a school teacher in 1933 taught me out of a 100 yr old dictionary. In all the times I’ve moved, I’ve managed to hold onto that huge, leather-bound book.
Wholesome :)
I rejected those lessons after they dropped this on my desk:
/ə/