![]() ![]() Limit your posts to no more than two per day.ġ0. Limit Submission to 1-2 Per Day: Please do not spam the subreddit with submissions. ![]() However, please refrain from using the downvote button to express your opinion and instead tell the user what you don't like.ĩ. Comments and posts that discuss downvotes/upvotes will be removed. Ignore Downvotes: Discussing votes and vote-weight is a violation of Reddiquette. Include Adequate Information: Please see our Wiki for posting guidelinesĨ. Try to keep your lists under 15 suggestions and pay attention to what the poster is asking forħ. Keep Suggestions Helpful/No Name Dumping: Respect Other Cultures: This includes: Bashing names or spellings that are from a culture other than your own, cultural appropriation, including suggesting names that could be considered appropriating, and spreading incorrect information about another culture's name or naming traditionsĦ. "School list from Florida" = okay "First graders from Pensacola Florida" = not okayĥ. ![]() Do Not Post Confidential Information: Please do not post other people's last names without consent or specific areas in name lists. People caught lying/changing their stories for karma and attention will be banned permanently.Ĥ. NO Trolling/Dishonesty: Please be honest about the help you are wanting to receive. Please read this thread for more information on acceptable criticismģ. Negative opinions are allowed, but please be kind when stating your thoughts. NO Mocking: Be respectful of other people’s name choices. NO Derogatory Language: Disagreement and negative opinions are welcome, but please be respectful and express your opinions with tact. Welcome! Check out our Wiki page for help with how to get started!ġ. And this book is cool, too.Are you looking for a name for your baby? Your character? Your business? Yourself? Are you fascinated by the history and meaning of names? /r/namenerds is a community for name enthusiasts of all kinds. I don’t know what the story of wren is, but I’m sure there is one.Įvery word has a story, and dictionaries, especially some of the more scholarly ones, tell the story of each.Įnglish is cool. Often, that means there’s a story behind the word. So, some words, such as wren, are very old and somehow avoided being forced to operate within the rules. The pronunciation of English words, for the most part, came about before somebody sat down to figure out the rules of pronunciation. Or S for seas (which you’d think would be spelled cees, right?).Īll of this hints at how much fun it is to learn and use English. Some of the words in this book don’t fit into any other categories and seem almost subversive. What a ninny I was, right? Eventually, I figured out that our didn’t sound like are, but it did sound like hour. When I was a little kid, I thought that are and our were pronounced the same way. F is not for photo (except in Spanish in which the word is spelled foto).Seven of Haldar and Carpenter’s chapters have to do with another kind of letter, a letter that isn’t used for a word that sounds like it, such as: Quay isn’t pronounced “kway”? Wow, what I learned from this book! I also learned, at this late date, from this book, how to pronounce Oaxaca (wa-HA-ka), Qatar (CUT-er) and quay (key). ![]() KEEN-wah? I’m like a thousand years old, but it wasn’t until I read this book that I realized the words I said in my head as “quin-oa” is actually said “KEEN-wah.” Other foreign words don’t have silent first letters but have become entrenched in English, such as jai alai, oui and quinoa - HIGH-lie, wee and KEEN-wah. “M” and “w” are pretty straight-forward in their sounds, except when they’re silent.īut you know - or, at least, you will very soon - that “c” often will sound like “k” in cook, but sometimes it’ll sound like an “s” in circle.Īnd that “g” will sound like “g” in get, but it can also sound like the “g” in geology, or like the “g” in genre.Īs you’re likely to guess, a lot of the silent-letter words come from a non-English language, such as gnocchi. In fact, a lot of the words they highlight in their book, playfully illustrated by Maria Tina Beddia, have silent letters, such as: I never thought of this before, but Raj Haldar and Chris Carpenter, who wrote this book, showed me that pterodactyl is pronounced the way it is because the “p” is silent. You know - or, at least, you will very soon - that when you see a “p” at the start of a word, the word, most of the time, will have a “p” sound there, like pig and pistachio and punctilious.īut then there are words such as pterodactyl. They’d probably get all worried that a book like P is for Pterodactyl will ruin your spelling. Emma, this book review is for you, but don’t tell your Mom and Dad. ![]()
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