Did you know the letter β€œU” has two different pronunciations?

That’s why they call it a W

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I like this pronunciation
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A doctor, who was just newly a dad, decided to give a medical school lecture on the human reproductive system and what he learned throughout his partner's pregnancy. When a student asked what the correct pronunciation of ovaries is, he shrugged and said:

Oh, varies.

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Here’s a dad joke I made today: when someone says a word incorrectly, say β€œI see that pronunciation isn’t your forty”
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Pronunciation saves the lives of innocent wallets

My wife called me up from the animal shelter the other day wanting to adopt a dog. Since money is tight current, I specifically said "0 canine". Now I'm the proud owner of 9 German shepherd pups and will from now on pronounce "0" as "Zero".

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last gift on birthday
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Arkansas is the only state mentioned in the Bible.

β€œNoah walked out onto the ark and saw....”

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Beautiful city
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cured meats
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My Himalayan friend has a cow that refuses to stand up.

I always see Himalayan there.

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A English man, a Spaniard, a French man, and a German. Go to a club. The guy on stage asks if they can see him. They said

β€œYes” β€œOui” β€œSí” β€œJa”

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Why did the pianist turn around on his way to the grocery store?

He forgot his Chopin Liszt.

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What did Richard say to his friend Ted?

I'm addicted.

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Just had double knee surgery in Japan

I guess you can call them Japa-knees

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I saw a Korean martial artist holding out a basket of donuts. When I asked to take 2, he said no.

I replied β€œcan I at least Taekwondo?”

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Weebs be like
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How did I get out of Iraq?

Iran

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Realized my boys will someday be dads after the cat tried to sneak outside tonight

Me, to my two boys: "Hazel tried to escape, but I captured her."

Boy 1: (pronunciation) "cap- CHURR!"

Boy 2: "Or... You CAT-tured her!"

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I grew facial hair without telling anyone.

It's my secret 'stache.

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Queue is just one letter followed by four silent letters

They must be waiting for their turn.

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My friend told me he was Jewish.

I was like, β€œNo way!” And he was like, β€œYahweh.”

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I can’t Handel this.
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My son just became a father for the first time today…

And in passing on the paternal torch, when he asked me where I kept all my dad jokes, I told him…they were stored in my dadabase.…

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Entertainment puns

I have two favorite titles that are extremely clever puns.

β€œShawn the Sheep” β€œDexter”

β€œShawn the Sheep” is a sly play on the dialect of the characters in the animation. β€œShawn” and β€œshorn” have the same pronunciation in the dialect of the outskirts of Bristol, UK.

β€œDexter” is a wonderful Latin pun. β€œDexter” is the word for β€œright” and β€œSinister” is the implied compliment, the word for β€œleft” in Latin. Dexter is a series about a serial killer who only murders those guilty of crimes. His name in Latin implies he is the opposite of sinister, right or just.

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An ancient Greek walks into his tailor's shop with a pair of torn pants.

"Euripides?" says the tailor. "Yeah, Eumenides?" replies the man.

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The other day someone asked if I could name the Japanese term for those ninja throwing stars.

I said, "Sure I can."

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I don't understand why aquatic mammals are even necessary.

I mean, what porpoise do they serve?

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Ringing in my ears? That doesn't work for me.

How about tomorrownitus?

*Pronunciation may vary

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If Nike sold bikes...

Would the correct pronunciation be 'Nike Bike' or 'Nike Bike?'

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Pun request

I know this is not normal, but can you guys make a pun from the name Kasper? It’s for his birthday

I understand if this post gets removed

Edit: english pronunciation

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The French really hated the English

They even eliminated tea entirely from their pronunciations.

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Wanna hear dadjokeszcΕΊ?

My English teacher once told me to polish my pronunciation.

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What’s a locksmith’s favorite kind of pasta?

Gnocchi

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What would an association run by professional nuns focus on?

Pronunciation.

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I should call my wifi Martin Router King

Its password would be "I_have_a_stream"

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I'm just gamma leave this here... imgur.com/gallery/CxeqriE
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Why shouldn't you wear Ukrainian underwear?

Because Chernobyl fallout.

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Puns of Varying Quality on the Subject of Linguistics (created in a fit of procrastinative inspiration) some of which I thought someone, someday might appreciate.

Note: Quality Very Varying (I see what I did there) and sometimes subject to specialist knowledge. So I apologise in advance. Shame me with your better puns.

While I was languishing in the Language Centre, doing some semantics antics and considering how all the other linguistics students despised and derided me, I was accosted by a stout man with large glasses who made me a preposition. It was that I should collect terrible puns, to do with linguistics, in order to ingratiate myself yet further with the other linguistics students (including even the phonetics fanatics).

I'm struggling to think of a pun to do with grammaticality that both makes sense and "Is grandma tickly?" correct. I'm also stuck on 'morphologician'. (I'm not actually sure that's a particularly logical word for the subject, though I guess that's more for, er, more for a logician to worry about.)

The problem I have with writing about phonological variation is that one is constantly forced to choose between being fun or logical - very Asian!I always get in trouble with electricians, they think I'm calling them a 'dialectician' whereas in fact I'm just saying "Die, electrician."

I like pscycholinguistics – the only department of linguistics where it’s acceptable to wear a cycle helmet. My Australian accent is terrible but I like to think my Sath Efrican one is predicate. My favourite accent is Received Pronunciation, because it is the accent chiefly used by invisible Japanese people who are ordered online. When the first recipient of an invisible Japanese person got the parcel, they wrote a complaint saying "Received but can't see Asian" and the name stuck.

Why did the speakers whose native languages weren't English, but whose only shared language was English, but they weren't very good at it and kept on having to stop to think about it, stop talking to one another? They came to an agreement. (Get it? If not, write your answer on a pastecard and paste it to the below address.)

What did the 'a' say to the 'the'? "You definitely are ticklish, 'the'!"

Why was the small man eaten by the large bear, which was proportionately bigger than him? It had, er, relative claws.

I think the reason there are so many speakers of Russian is because they all partake in an activity called "copulae shun". (Ok, ok, I know, that was Pushkin it.)

I know a man called Hillary who can, might, should, did, must, shall and will ride an ox. We call him "Ox Hillary".

I always think the verb 'to be' in the senten

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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My dad cracked himself up pretty good with this one

My dad and I talking about some statistic

Me- "You need to just look at the data."

Dad-"Day-tuh." (correcting my pronunciation which he does any chance he can get)

Me-"Data."

Dad-"No, I'm dada."

Groans shared by his girlfriend and I while he cracks up.

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Proud of my gf for this one

Background: I moved to Europe recently and got a European girlfriend. One of my favourite things to do with her is when she tries to correct my horrible pronunciation I just keep repeating the word the same way and she keeps trying to correct me until she realizes.

So this happens when we were talking about MΓΌnchen. I said "Munch'n" (on purpose) and she said something like Moonkien. This went back and forth until I said "Munch'n... Oh man I love this game" to which she replied "Munch'n, how do you play that game?"

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Got me twice in 10 seconds...

My dad keeps some hand sanitizer on-hand next to him in his car. As my dad was driving, I saw that there was a bit of hand sanitizer that had spilled onto his cup holder.

Me: Hey dad, did you spill purell?

Dad: P-U-R-E-L-L.

Me: What?

Dad: You asked me if I spelled purell, but I didn't so now I did!

Me: groans Okay Dad, did you spill purell?? [Emphasized pronunciation of word]

Dad No I didn't spill purell... because that's germ-x.

Me: groaning intensifies

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How to pronounce 'scythe'

So last night at dinner, I was discussing with my brother the pronunciation of the letter 'y' in the word 'scythe.' Me: "It's pronounced scythe!" (Sounds like eye) Brother: "No, it's scythe!" (Like sith) Me: "Mom, as an English major how is it pronounced?" Dad: "I don't think the British know that much about Star Wars." Me: "Mother, why did you marry him?"

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When my Dad put his name down at a restaurant his name would be "Zeus". When the someone inquired about his odd name he would say "it's short for "Jesus"

Jesus being the Latin pronunciation. Extra credit, he's hella white.

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