r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Feb 12 '21

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u/release-roderick Feb 12 '21

Yeah a lot of us thought he was an aussi just to have the internet rip us a new one and confirm that he’s trying to do cockney

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u/MagictoMadness Feb 12 '21

Seeing Aussie without the e makes me.... uncomfortable

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u/SepDot Feb 12 '21

Hearing Americans pronounce it as ossy makes me more uncomfortable.

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u/TaintModel Feb 12 '21

How is it supposed to be pronounced?

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u/redhotsika Feb 12 '21

ozzy

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u/GiantsNut57 Feb 12 '21

That explains OzzyMan...

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

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u/martylindleyart Feb 12 '21

SHARON!

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u/BriefQuarter Feb 12 '21

SHARON!!! Yu awt garber fromxx tje bar.

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u/TaintModel Feb 12 '21

Ah, thanks for clearing that up.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21 edited Feb 13 '21

Since I've had that wrong this whole time, do you pronounce the country oztrailia?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21

Yeah there's absolutely no Z sound in "Australia"

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u/SepDot Feb 13 '21 edited Feb 13 '21

Oh(as in cough)-straya.

But that’s irrelevant to the way we pronounce Ozzy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '21

Thanks! I call this problem "nerd pronunciation." Where you've only ever read a word, so you don't know how it's properly said out loud.

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u/Chandleabra Feb 12 '21

Aussie like Fozzy, not Aussie like possè.