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minus-squareStop Forgetting It@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-24 months agoI’ve looked it up a bunch of times and I still don’t know if potable is “POTE-ah-bull” or “POT-ah-bull”
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 months agoThe first one, as it comes from the Latin “potare,” “to drink.” Sure, we could use “drinkable” instead, but too many people would understand how to say it and what it meant.
minus-squareStop Forgetting It@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoThat is what I was going for with my first option, I am just bad at phonics
minus-squareJumpingspiderman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoI say it the first way. I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
minus-squareuuldika@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoit’s /ˈpoːdəbl/ in American English anyway.
minus-squarebss03@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoPotent Potables – from (SNL’s) Celebrity Jeopardy.
I’ve looked it up a bunch of times and I still don’t know if potable is “POTE-ah-bull” or “POT-ah-bull”
The first one, as it comes from the Latin “potare,” “to drink.” Sure, we could use “drinkable” instead, but too many people would understand how to say it and what it meant.
what about pote-ah-bull
That is what I was going for with my first option, I am just bad at phonics
I say it the first way. I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
it’s /ˈpoːdəbl/ in American English anyway.
Potent Potables – from (SNL’s) Celebrity Jeopardy.