misk@piefed.social to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoHow Chrono Trigger Taught Me The Word ‘Epoch’www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down12
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minus-squaremonkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-223 hours agohttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/epoch There’s 3 pronunciations, the UK EE-pok and two US versions sound like Epic and EH-pock. It is indeed a weird word. Hard to rhyme. Can only think of peacock.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoHuh! I’ve always said eh-pock. But I would understand a speaker who said ee-pock. Epic though?
minus-squareGonzako@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-219 hours agoYou ain’t got good rhymes doc I keep trying to pick up stock of the silly lyrics i always thought
minus-squaremonkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoI meant a perfect rhyme. :/
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 hours agoSo I’m spittin rhymes, like I’m a Glock While all you do is sit and talk.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/epoch
There’s 3 pronunciations, the UK EE-pok and two US versions sound like Epic and EH-pock.
It is indeed a weird word. Hard to rhyme. Can only think of peacock.
Huh! I’ve always said eh-pock. But I would understand a speaker who said ee-pock. Epic though?
You ain’t got good rhymes doc
I keep trying to pick up stock
of the silly lyrics i always thought
I meant a perfect rhyme. :/
So I’m spittin rhymes, like I’m a Glock
While all you do is sit and talk.
Clean sock?