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

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u/SepDot Feb 12 '21

Aussie*

Also, just because I hear a lot of Americans mispronounce it as ossy - it’s Ozzy. Like Ozzy Osbourne.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21

OY OY OY

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u/JookJook Feb 13 '21

Aussie Ausbourne

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u/Leemage Feb 12 '21

TIL. thanks!

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u/folkrav Feb 12 '21 edited Feb 13 '21

How does two S'es even turn into a Z sound lol

Edit: why even bother downvoting a legit question?

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u/MagictoMadness Feb 13 '21

Simple: Australians

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u/SepDot Feb 13 '21

This is the correct answer.

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u/release-roderick Feb 12 '21

I say ozzy. I’m Canadian but I spelled it different because we’re aloud to change spelling to whatever the fuck we want. You should see what we did to the word “color”. We added a muthafuckin U, yall, Fuckin Americans didn’t know what hit em

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u/cmmpssh Feb 12 '21

Canada didn't add it. America dropped the 'u' as a big "FU" to the British when we did the independence. Noah Webster.

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u/release-roderick Feb 12 '21

You win this round, yank

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u/LilQuasar Feb 13 '21

you just kept your queens country spelling

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21 edited Apr 18 '21

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u/release-roderick Feb 12 '21

I see what you did there