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Also, do it assuming different linguistic backgrounds. It could sound dramatically different by people that speak English but as second language, which are going to be a whole lot of your users, even if the application is in English.


If there is a g in there I will pronounce a g there. I have some standards and that is one. Pronouncing every single letter.


> Pronouncing every single letter.

Now I want to know how you pronounce words like: through, bivouac, and queue.


You don’t pronounce all the letters?


no. ever heard of silent letters?


I'm a native speaker of English, northern California dialect. I pronounce every one of those letters, to varying degrees. Some just affect the mouth shape by subtle amounts, but it is there.


> I pronounce every one of those letters, to varying degrees

That must be fun any time you talk about Worcestershire (the sauce or the place).


I was only talking about the examples given.


That's a gnarly standard you have there.


obviously not a native French speaker


It's pronounced wanderfull in Norwegian


And how many of your users are going to have Nordic backgrounds?

I personally thought it was wander _fughel_ or something.

Let alone how difficult it is to remember how to spell it and look it up on Google.


Just FYI, I would read it out loud in English as “wander fuggle”. I would assume most Americans would pronounce the ‘g’.

I thought ‘wanderfugl’ was a throwback to ~15 years ago when it was fashionable to use a word but leave out vowels for no reason, like Flickr/ /Tumblr/Scribd/Blendr.


The one current paying user of the app I've seen in this discussion called it "Wanderlog". FYI on the stickiness of the current name.


wanderlog is a separate web service

https://wanderlog.com/


"Wanderful" would be a better name.




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