If I could have one wish, it would be to get English speakers to pronounce "puerile" as it's fucking spelled, roughly "pwer-ile", instead of "pure-ile" like they've got license to move vowels around willy-nilly.
@noelle idk do you think “cue” should be pronounced “kwe” because the “pue” in “puerile” seems like the same thing
anyway as a compromise wiktionary says that received pronunciation is “pew·eh·rile” americans just dropped the second syllable
@Lady No, because the "e" in "cue" comes at the end of the word and so its function is to lengthen the vowel that precedes it. ;) It's just one of those things that grates on my ears when I hear it, mostly because I learned Latin before I heard the word "puerile".
