Pronounciations of Vi and Yi

SpookyNeedle·Mar 21, 2016·3 votes·579 views

(The common pronounciations)

Vi -> Vye Yi -> Yee

What gives, why wouldn't they have similar pronounciations?

11 Comments

IcyPepperMar 21, 20164 votes

What gives, why wouldn't they have similar pronounciations?

Because words like bologna exist.

Come on, man. This is English. It gets weird.

Void NargacugaMar 21, 20162 votes

Yeah can't argue with that. The English language is just one giant melting pot for words that originate from other languages... It gets weird when you get to the stuff that got stuck to the bottom.

ModWulf HelhammerMar 21, 20163 votes

It's thoroughly enjoyable to confuse people with tough words though.

Also "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a completely grammatically correct sentence

Void NargacugaMar 21, 20161 votes

Oh gods! That is hilarious! XD

ZioviMar 21, 20162 votes

Wouldn’t the sentence “I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and and and and and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign” have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

amateur ;)

just quoting from here

explanations and other examples here

(also, upvote for you because it was really funny)

Void NargacugaMar 21, 20162 votes

I believe its due to the first letter in the name and how they work differently. Considering that Y sometimes counts as a vowel could very well be the key.

SpookyNeedleMar 21, 20162 votes

Where are the English majors when you need them [zombie-nunu-bummed]

Pandemic PunchMar 21, 20162 votes

Same reason we use physics instead of fiziks

SanKakUMar 21, 20161 votes

English language is like a lot of other languages in that they borrow words from other languages. But English speakers do this thing where they follow the spelling as precisely as possible and it's possible they will try to keep the original pronunciation if possible and if that happens then the spelling will not follow the English rules most likely.

Also, names tend to throw rules out the window. Vie is an English word, but feminine names are often English words spelled incorrectly on purpose while the male names are usually spelled correctly, like Mark or Ray. If a word is Anglicized, then all the above about spelling/pronouncing as much like the original as possible will not apply. An example of Anglicization would be the name Andrew, which is a fully English version of the Greek name Andreas.