• Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    I suspect this might depend on the variety of English you speak? (And non-natives can fuck right off löl)

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      2 days ago

      I think you need to speak the American dialect specifically.

      As I Brit I could not get this one at all until I came to the comments. I was thinking Kahn on the loo. Kahn on the big. Kahn on the toilet.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, that doesn’t rhyme at all in my head. I can see how it would though, I just have to rewire my brain to hear it.

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            1 day ago

            I don’t pronounce them like that at all but I’ve heard “john” be pronounced with a long “ah” sound, like “jawwwwn” or “jaaaaahn” to rhyme with “Khan”. I don’t know, I don’t even go here (non-native).