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@witchfynder_finder @monorail you pick the letter corresponding to the shape generally

floppies and hard disks have straight edges (K) and CDs are round (C)

@witchfynder_finder i mean arguably the answer is “it is up to the speaker and audience” since the identity of a bunch of boards as “a ship”, much less “the same ship”, is a human construct

we say contemporary english is a different language from old english, for example, despite there being a continuum between them

but that distinction is arbitrary and human-created

@witchfynder_finder i'm a lesbian so i might have a little bias but the fact that they felt a need to add him just tells me that it has huge sapphic energy otherwise

@witchfynder_finder on the other hand “WAKE ME UP INSIDE ☠️ (CAN’T WAKE UP)” is timeless

mostly because it is a better song

and i can’t get tired of laughing at that male vocalist

@noelle yeah i think the sticking point is just that English pronounces long U as “yew” and Americans like to drop the E in “-er”

it *should* be pronounced pū-er-rīl but when you drop that E you get pūr-rīl, which incidentally is pure-rile

@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