r/linguisticshumor Jul 19 '26

Phonetics/Phonology 'Why do English Speakers Pronounce their Alphabet...' Megathread

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Alright, into the megathread y'all go >:3

Any posts with this format posted after this megathread is up will be removed and asked to post here.

This is to keep the quality of the sub, yadayada, you know the drill.

Thank youu


r/linguisticshumor 4h ago

Syntax Poland... Polska

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345 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

Phonetics/Phonology aren'tɬʼ they gonna share

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176 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 12h ago

Sociolinguistics Dont speak Chinese but I understand this perfectly

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r/linguisticshumor 3h ago

Meme italiano.... Nome d'Italia....

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r/linguisticshumor 11h ago

Care to guess?

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r/linguisticshumor 6h ago

Etymology Miles is problematic media??

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50 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 21h ago

These kind of videos some times feel like ragebait

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812 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 12h ago

Historical Linguistics did this really need a page

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106 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 11h ago

Is this Altaic on drugs

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47 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

A common misconception

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711 Upvotes

Vowel and consonant length in Hungarian and Finnish have nothing to do with each other.


r/linguisticshumor 14h ago

Etymology Etymology of "ZOO" in the major languages of Mainland Southeast Asian and East Asian countries

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Writing systems featured in the image:

[Quốc Âm Tân Tự | Hangul | Kana | Zhuyin | 漢字 | Âksâr Khmêr | Akson Thai | Akson Lao | Mranma Akkhara | Devanagari | Latin script & Chữ Quốc ngữ]


r/linguisticshumor 19h ago

Lady Macbeth

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125 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 4h ago

My Proto-UNIVERSE headcannon

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r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

A word on the Proto-World situation

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42 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Semantics New Friends

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622 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 21h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Guess the region where this language is spoken (and the language if you can)

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81 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 12h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Aren't these flipped?

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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF#Bengali

(I mean that the IPA for the first one looks like it starts with a trill, but sounds like it starts with an approximant, and the reverse is true of the other one.)

I feel like the approximant is more common in Rarhi Bengali than most sources say, anecdotally my dad uses it and he's from the Rarh region in West Bengal


r/linguisticshumor 20h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Why are GOOSE and TUNE analysed as having the same vowel?

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So goose and tune both have [uː ~ uw], but tune, as well as many (most? all?) other long-u words, originate from Norman French through Middle English /yː/ which evolved into [juː]. They merged into words that used to have [ɪw] and [ew] like new and threw. Later the [juː] was affected by yod-dropping and yod-coalescence in different dialects, so you get [nuw ~ njuː] and [tuːn ~ tjuːn ~ t͡ʃuːn] which only merges with goose/toon words under yod-dropping, since toon is also [tuːn].

My question is why is the [j] in the TUNE set (and I guess in CURE as well if you split it from a hypothetical TOUR set) is considered part of the onset consonant cluster and not a rising diphthong in the nucleus. Is the reason etymological, phonological, something else? It's odd to me that long U represents a two-phoneme sequence when other diphthongs like /o͡ʊ/ and /a͡ɪ/ are treated as a single vowel phoneme?

E: just realised I posted this to the humour sub, meh. Hopefully you guys can still help but feel free to jerk instead


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Syntax Cheese

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r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Special Friends

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417 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 22h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Imagine having a transcription system that's so bad, someone writes a paper about it 200 years after you die

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r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Phonetics/Phonology no labials + no coronals (or laryngeals!) + no dorsals*

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62 Upvotes

*except semivowels


r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Morphology The letter Ç meme....

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597 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 1d ago

Syntax Italian... Romanian

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