Just saw this. Very interesting, albeit just a tad scary:
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Global warming in my house has exploded… we have city heat (heat residue from powerplants heats our heaters), but something in our system has broken and the house temperature’s been rising now for a week. It’s 24 degrees as I write.
Don’t worry though. They’re coming to fix it before we’re fried on the couch.
And the American pronounciation of bouy is completely nuts.
@shavixmir said"BOO-weee." That's how they say it in Star Trek.
On two side notes:
Global warming in my house has exploded… we have city heat (heat residue from powerplants heats our heaters), but something in our system has broken and the house temperature’s been rising now for a week. It’s 24 degrees as I write.
Don’t worry though. They’re coming to fix it before we’re fried on the couch.
And the American pronounciation of bouy is completely nuts.
@shavixmir
That is a bit warm, some 75 degrees F, I have been fighting our furnace, too cold, like 12 degrees C, 54 F. We use propane and I took the furnace apart and found the pipes that send heat to the water were very dirty, I half filled a shop vac with the dust and stuff. Very dirty job! but now we are running 65 F, 18 C. That furnace also provides hot water for kitchen and showers.
@shavixmir saidMore accurately I guess Americans say BOO-ee. I've researched the British pronunciation, and I can't say BOY cuts it for me. There's a "u" in there, not to be ignored. Have the Brits gotten so accustomed to ignoring the "u" in "colour" that they are utterly blind to it?
And they say it obviously wrong…
On the other hand, we pronounce "bouyancy" as BOY-ancy, so maybe we are screwed up after all. And worse, we have a tendency to pronounce bouy as BOY when it's a verb, and say BOO-ee when it's a noun.
Buoy is a Germanic word, so the Germans should be the ultimate tie-breaker. They say BO-yeh, which is closer to BOY than BOO-ee. I guess that settles it.
@soothfast saidThat last thing settles nothing. We won the bloody war.
More accurately I guess Americans say BOO-ee. I've researched the British pronunciation, and I can't say BOY cuts it for me. There's a "u" in there, not to be ignored. Have the Brits gotten so accustomed to ignoring the "u" in "colour" that they are utterly blind to it?
On the other hand, we pronounce "bouyancy" as BOY-ancy, so maybe we are screwed up after all. And ...[text shortened]... ltimate tie-breaker. They say BO-yeh, which is closer to BOY than BOO-ee. I guess that settles it.
Well, I say "we", but obviously I mean the Germans lost. It's not like I, personally, had a lot to do with it...
@suzianne saidThere's numerous examples of words pronounces differently by citizens of different countries.There's even a song about it.
Speaking as an American, it's buoy, not bouy, and the preferred pronunciation is "boo-ee", but "boy" is also acceptable.
As long as you make yourself understood , I don't think the pronounciation or the spelling in written text matters.
I had relations ,sadly mostly dead now, who live about 40 miles away.
When they talk fast in dialect I struggle to understand them!
