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Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago

Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon".

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Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon".

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Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20160782

Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Name

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Modern Greek keeps that [x] for that word - [ç] only appears before [e i].

I was about to edit that when I saw your comment. Guess I wasn’t completely awake. Thanks for the elaboration!

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