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minus-squareStop Forgetting It@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 day agoI’ve looked it up a bunch of times and I still don’t know if potable is “POTE-ah-bull” or “POT-ah-bull”
minus-squarebss03@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoPotent Potables – from (SNL’s) Celebrity Jeopardy.
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-21 day agoThe first one, as it comes from the Latin “potare,” “to drink.” Sure, we could use “drinkable” instead, but too many people would understand how to say it and what it meant.
minus-squareStop Forgetting It@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoThat is what I was going for with my first option, I am just bad at phonics
minus-squareJumpingspiderman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoI say it the first way. I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
minus-squareuuldika@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 hours agoit’s /ˈpoːdəbl/ in American English anyway.
I’ve looked it up a bunch of times and I still don’t know if potable is “POTE-ah-bull” or “POT-ah-bull”
Potent Potables – from (SNL’s) Celebrity Jeopardy.
The first one, as it comes from the Latin “potare,” “to drink.” Sure, we could use “drinkable” instead, but too many people would understand how to say it and what it meant.
what about pote-ah-bull
That is what I was going for with my first option, I am just bad at phonics
I say it the first way. I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
it’s /ˈpoːdəbl/ in American English anyway.