Here i am, mouthing letters in the bathroom stall
Reached the letter o and got a surprise from the hole in the wall
“Instructions unclear, started accidental glory hole”
Oh! Pee!
I am also taking a shit and mouthing letters bro
I too am delaying the wipe!
They also touch when you just shut the hell up.
I would have been happier if it was a goose
B M P W
I feel like double u is cheating since that’s just b again.
I’d argue ‘f’ they don’t press hard but they lightly touch
Bro what are you doing with your lips? “F” is top teeth on lower lip.
What the pfuck are you pfrattling on about?
My front lip is over my teeth when I say it, and it is touching the bottom lip.
you can also form an /s/ with various parts of the tongue and mouth but it’s generally held to be an alveolar bladal fricative.
That would interrupt airflow would it not?
Not if your lips just touch lightly in the middle and the air flows around the sides.
Maybe it’s a regional thing, but that’s also how I say that sound.
Could be regional yeah. Interesting!
W still leaves an opening tho
They’re probably pronouncing it as “Double-U”…
How else is it pronounced?
as a phoneme, it’s a bilabial approximant - meaning the lips form the sound by moving close but not touching and then parting again
compare to the palatal approixmant /y/ formed by the root of the tongue performing a similar action with the soft palate.
Like … Have you ever read a word with w in it?
I kinda know what you are getting at - if you dictate a word by pronouncing each letter separately you need to add stuff to each one to make it stand out - but Jesus Christ, what a question.
Hodoubleu is the doublueather today? Only a fedoubleu oubleuhite clouds in a clear blue sky.
Thanks for making me laugh!
Edit: in German it is pronounced “we”, with the e like in ketchup.
I vote we change it in English to be pronounced like in German. It always bugged me that it’s the only multisyllabic letter name. Along the same lines, we should rename seven to sev.
The time save when pronouncing “www” is incredible. 🙃
I sometimes like reading or listening to stories of people scamming scammers. He used this exact thing to really confuse the scammer.
“Please type in double u double double u…”
“Alright, I typed in double u double u double… It says page not found” (i.e. uuuuuu)
In German y is not pronounced as “why”, but instead as “Ypsilon”. You win some you lose some I guess.
More infuriating is “e” - it’s pronounced as “I” ffs! But when in a word only if it’s the first letter or something. Otherwise it’s pronounced as “e” as it rightfully should be!
well it only touches at the B sound and we already had B so…
It doesn’t say “no opening”, it just says “lips touch”. My lips can touch without completely closing.
Y
Instead of W, you mean
Sometimes
Bruh what are you smoking? My lips don’t touch for W. They don’t even move half the time.
I get 6, yours plus F and Y.
Pronouncing the letter, or saying the letter’s name?
I get three for the former, and four for the latter.
The latter
Pronouncing the letter, or saying the letter’s name?
A, George B, Hollis
But seriously, what?
Pronouncing the letter - Ay, bee, cee
Saying the letters name???
The letter “B” is not pronounced “bee”, that is how you pronounce the name of the letter. It makes a “buh” sound.
The important one is “W” because if you name the letter, “double yew” your lips will touch. If you pronounce the letter, “wuh wuh,” then your lips do not touch.
The other letters are M and P, and your lips touch both saying the name and making the sound the letter represents.
Wuh what sound do you think “W” makes?
/w/
as opposed to /dəbl’yju:/
Ohh how it’s pronounced in words!
If you pronounce the letter, “wuh wuh,” then your lips do not touch.
Your lips don’t touch making w in wuh?
In the middle? No, but if we’re including touching at the corners, then O, U, F, V, G, J, Q, and Y all join the party.
W has a ‘b’ sound in the name, but doesn’t when used in a word.
Saying their name I get zero.
Say “B, M, P” without closing your mouth.
They’re named Eric what did you name yours?
I didn’t rename them. They have names. B, M, and P.
Whatever floats your oat
Saw someone describe the plot of Bee Movie the other day as: man cucked by bee. I cannot look at this movie the same anymore.
Behold, the bilabials
That’s wrong! There are only three bilabial letters! P, M, and B. F and V are labiodental
W
That’s labial velar approximate. We don’t say “bwatermelon” just because the letter is pronounced with a B
You’re right about how you would refer to each sound in use but the meme doesn’t say that there are 4 bilabials
What about W?
your lips dont touch for w
They do in American English at least
edit: I realize now you’re talking about its use within words, but a lot of us here assume that the meme is referring to saying each letter individually.
Yeah but thats the b in douBleyu
Only one letter of the English alphabet has more than one syllable, and it has three.
We should have named it u-two or to be more shape accurate, v-2.
Can’t. The band would sue.
If you were wondering, it got named “double u” when u and v were the same letter, V was used at the beginning of words and u ain the middle/end. It wasn’t till much later they were seperated into 2 glyphs for different sounds.
In German it’s called a Doppel-Vau, with Vau being the letter V.
In Dutch it’s just called wee, none of this double bullshit
In German it’s V = Fau, W = Vee.
Huh. I learned doppel-fau in high school. Could it be that both terms are used?
No, I’m not aware of any dialect that does and standard German definitely doesn’t use it.
No. Romance languages use variations of double V but not German
I fucking checked, too.
5
Y?
(nvm, y in english has no p)
Mine slightly touch for f
For me (german native speaker, also trainee voice actor), f has my upper teeth on my lower lips while still leaving a gap to the upper lips.
Tho, indeed, if you count a few percent on the sides, it could be counted.
I wouldn’t count it; but I see how one could do it
Something I noticed the other day. At least in the later seasons, the South Park lip sync matches the dialog so accurately, the mouth model shows the tongue only when the character is saying an L syllable
Its 5
I counted and my lips touch on B, F, M, P, W,
Edit: it’s actually 6 since Lips briefly touch for V
My lips definitely don’t touch on F or V, my upper teeth just touch my lower lip but upper lip is safe from contact.
Tell us you have a speach impediment without telling us you have a speach impediment.
Ehh, V feels more like my bottom lip touching my teeth, not the lip
If your lips actually touch for f and v you’re saying them wrong lmao, it’s not “epp” and “bee” it’s “eff” and “vee.” As everyone else already said, your lips don’t touch, but your lower teeth should be touching your upper lip.
Well, I’ve never said eff as many times in a row as I have today now. Thanks.
W is because you say the name of the letter. If you were to produce the sound that the W is associated with, you won’t touch lips.
And I agree with the others, F and V are the lower lip meeting the upper teeth.
I’m sure accent and dialect (within English) matter a lot.
For F my lips come close but blow out before touching. For V they come close but it’s my top teeth that touch my lip.
I mean, lips are touching with any letter already. So you just need to define the relative threshold from the origin of the lips to the center.
With B, P and M, the center of the lips touch. With F, V and W it’s just the sides. With other letters it is the origin.
I have no idea why I’m so into this.
I feel like W shouldn’t count since it’s basically just borrowing from B though.
Same with Y in German
Now I’m questioning why M has two syllables.
Emmuh
Emmuh
Dang
only in spanish.
They are: K-I-S-S :-P
