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junon
7 months ago
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1
Assuming it's similar to "folly" vs. "foley".
Koshkin
7 months ago
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Not even close.
junon
7 months ago
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Care to expand?
Koshkin
7 months ago
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Sure: “yaht” and “yot” sound virtually the same (at least in American English), only maybe slightly different in the length of the vowel; “folly” and “foley”, on the other hand, sound
very
different from one another.
junon
7 months ago
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Yes, that is my point. "Yot" is pronounced differently (as in "foley")
outside of America
in a lot of cases.
Koshkin
7 months ago
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Except (just to be clear) no native speaker would ever pronounce 'o' in 'yot' and 'foley' the same way.
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