Sorry if this comes across as pedantic, I’m genuinely curious and taking an interest. Consider it a learning moment for me.
No worries, they’re good questions 😄
I’ll have to get someone else to weigh in, since I’m not all that confident on how each Canadian accent might pronounce it, since certain words have varying pronunciations across the country. This could be a fun question for our census at the end of the year!
I’m confused, I don’t pronounce it fed-uh-verse or fed-eh-verse.
It’s very much fed-ih-verse, where the vowel is pronounced the same as in feddit. I tried to explain this using the International Phonetic Alphabet but that shit is extremely confusing to me.
However you do make a valid point about lazy American pronunciations. They tend to become dominant regardless of whether they are technically correct.
It’s a good development to see fediverse getting organized better. The burden of hosting a lemmy, mastodon etc. site should not lie on a single person.
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