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scott_wtoday at 2:23 PM5 repliesview on HN

While I get what you're going for, unfortunately, the pronunciation of Wear means it doesn't work. The correct pronunciation is more like Whee-ah (sounds a little bit like wheel) as opposed to sounding like "where" ;-)


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graemeptoday at 4:41 PM

Near enough for a dad joke, and works perfectly visually (a bit like "there are 10 types of people - those who know binary and those who do not"). In fact I find your lack of appreciation of the humour a bit wearing, not to say wear-ed.

syspectoday at 2:49 PM

Still works, just Aussie

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Kyetoday at 6:04 PM

"Correct" is doing a lot of work there. Dialects are a thing. I have never heard anyone pronounce it like whee-ah. They would get a lot of chuckles here where it's pronounced the same as where.

Whee-ah is a little emphasis away from sounding like a donkey.

nkrisctoday at 4:47 PM

So more like “weir”.