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I used that to look up how to pronounce ullage last week and I hate it. Also I've been saying it wrong for a decade...

Ullage is the space inside a propellant tank that is empty or filled with buffer gas instead of propellant. As the tank drains, the ullage increases and you have to continually backfill it or the tank will squeeze itself closed like a can of soda inside a vice.
 
hobbsyoyo said:
I used that to look up how to pronounce ullage last week and I hate it. Also I've been saying it wrong for a decade...

Ullage is the space inside a propellant tank that is empty or filled with buffer gas instead of propellant.
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This is the first time I've heard of this word. The pronunciation matches my immediate guess.

How have you been saying it? :confused:

Ooo-lawj? :P
 
Without looking it up, I am guess that it's pronounced as "you'll log."
 
I read more than I talk, obviously
 
baal-assed (ballast)

As in, ships that rely on their fuel tanks to give them some stability in severe storms would pump seawater into their tanks. The bunker oil would stay distinct and "float" on the seawater. Takes some cleaning afterward, but it beats capsizing in a hurricane.
 
Computer acronyms are sometimes fun to pronounce though. SCSI is "scuzzy" and WYSIWYG is "wizzy-wig."
 
Synsensa said:
TIL that Google now has pronunciation guides for certain words. I was looking up the official pronunciation of "niche" since I've been hearing more and more people saying it as "nitch" and I was starting to wonder if I was the crazy one.

Behold.
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I never had a problem pronouncing it correctly. Mind you, I've had a lot of years of French, a French-speaking typing client (my high school French teacher; one of the projects he brought me was to type bilingual product labels for a friend who was trying to get a new business off the ground), and I can still follow some French on CBC if the speakers don't talk too fast.
 
Synsensa said:
TIL that Google now has pronunciation guides for certain words. I was looking up the official pronunciation of "niche" since I've been hearing more and more people saying it as "nitch" and I was starting to wonder if I was the crazy one.

Behold.

I've tried it with hyperbole and epitome, and it worked for those. Nothing came up for a standard word like neighbourhood. Nothing came up for acai, Aoife, or hygge. So it's very limited. But still, this is the first time I've seen it. I hope it gets expanded upon.
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The problem with words borrowed into English from French featuring ‘ch’ is that words borrowed earlier do keep the affricate ‘ch’ pronounciation instead of the fricative ‘sh’ newer one.
E.g. Charles and Charlotte.
 
Today I learned:

10% of patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease are between the ages of 21 and 50. For those with young-onset Parkinson’s disease, researchers report the foundations for the disease may have been apparent before they were born. The study also points to a drug, currently approved to treat precancerous skin growths, that has the potential to reduce elevated levels of alpha-synuclein.
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Unfortunately I don't really understand the rest of the article
 
Very funny :think:
 
It's very definitely a short a at the start, not a long one.
 
We could start a pronunciation thread.
 
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