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Comment	Post #290214	How am I supposed to pronounce occasionally? Because I'm pretty sure I've been saying *occasionly* my whole life. (more)	—	11 months ago
Edit	Post #290214	Initial revision	—	about 1 year ago
Question	—	Vowel insertion phenomenon When I, maybe Br.E speaker, pronounce adverbs ending '-bly' I find myself occasionally inserting an extra vowel. So I say feeble-y, noble-y but I 'correctly' say 'nim-bly' and 'lim-ply' (I've placed the hyphen to approximate stress). Various online dictionaries give the pronunciation without th... (more)	—	about 1 year ago
Comment	Post #288998	How could I better define what I'm expecting in an answer? (more)	—	over 1 year ago
Edit	Post #288998	Initial revision	—	over 1 year ago
Question	—	How can I un-translate these humourous 'translations' Windows terms, from Bengali? Here's the image of the humourous 'translations', and my wife has helped me 'untranslate' some of them, but we're stuck on some: image transcription below > Bill Gates has released Windows in a Bengali version called JANAALA 2016. Some terms which have been used: > > Save - Basao Save... (more)	—	over 1 year ago
Comment	Post #288413	Here's more what I mean, this page uses Tudorættinni to mean The Tudors, literally Tudor-family: https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3sastr%C3%AD%C3%B0in (more)	—	over 1 year ago
Comment	Post #288413	How does this work with extended family? I'm used to the notion that a large extended family with an family name that might be known over generations. For instance, referring to The Windors (UK royal family) or The Tooks (Hobbit family: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Took_(family) ) (more)	—	over 1 year ago