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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 00:26:12 JST clacke
   It's probably the most common pronunciation among native speakers and it makes the most sense with like "soft before i" thumb rules and stuff like that ...
   
   But it's stuck in my head that gyroscope should be /guyroscope/ and not /jyroscope/. It's even a soft g in Swedish, /yüroskawp/, so that's not where I'm getting it from either.
   
   I guess I just have a higher expectation on English to stick closer to the Greek when it's a Greek root.
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     badsynthesis (badsynthesis@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 00:30:02 JST badsynthesis

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     @clacke English is basically "take old norse, let simmer for a century or two. Throw in a big wallop of French, let simmer for half a millenium", the greek roots seem long gone ;)

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     Leif Lindholm (unixsmurf@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 00:30:16 JST Leif Lindholm

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     @clacke
     Trying to see rules in the English language is like trying to see intelligence in chatgpt.

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     Leif Lindholm (unixsmurf@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 00:31:49 JST Leif Lindholm

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     • Mans R

     @mansr
     I said nothing about it being difficult.
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     Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 00:31:50 JST Mans R

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     • Leif Lindholm

     @unixsmurf @clacke English isn't that hard. I was speaking it by the age of 3 or so.