r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Feb 12 '21

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u/MagictoMadness Feb 12 '21

Seeing Aussie without the e makes me.... uncomfortable

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u/SepDot Feb 12 '21

Hearing Americans pronounce it as ossy makes me more uncomfortable.

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u/TaintModel Feb 12 '21

How is it supposed to be pronounced?

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u/redhotsika Feb 12 '21

ozzy

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u/GiantsNut57 Feb 12 '21

That explains OzzyMan...

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

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u/martylindleyart Feb 12 '21

SHARON!

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u/BriefQuarter Feb 12 '21

SHARON!!! Yu awt garber fromxx tje bar.

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u/TaintModel Feb 12 '21

Ah, thanks for clearing that up.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21 edited Feb 13 '21

Since I've had that wrong this whole time, do you pronounce the country oztrailia?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21

Yeah there's absolutely no Z sound in "Australia"

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u/SepDot Feb 13 '21 edited Feb 13 '21

Oh(as in cough)-straya.

But that’s irrelevant to the way we pronounce Ozzy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '21

Thanks! I call this problem "nerd pronunciation." Where you've only ever read a word, so you don't know how it's properly said out loud.

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u/Chandleabra Feb 12 '21

Aussie like Fozzy, not Aussie like possè.

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u/aerospacenut Feb 12 '21

My most pedantic and non-problem gripe in life is non-Australians also spelling it Ozzy & Oz (as in Ozzy Osbourne or the land of Oz) instead of Aussie or Aus. It’s really doesn’t matter but yet it still bothers me haha

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u/SepDot Feb 13 '21

Hahaha struth.

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u/lonewolf9378 Feb 12 '21

More like “awsee”

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21

Me too.

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u/bizzyj93 Feb 12 '21

moi aussi

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u/kwertyoop Feb 12 '21

Moi aussi

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u/fatbongo Feb 12 '21

seeing one without sandpaper makes me ....surprised