• Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    I learned chitin from playing Morrowind. Pronounced it like “chit in” (like in “chip”). But also my local dialect/accent tends to drop pronouncing t’s so it came out more like “chi’in”. To this day it’s an active effort to pronounce it correctly if I ever have to say it out loud

    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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      18 days ago

      Okay, so I’ve just realised I’ve been pronouncing this wrong.

      So I’ve been pronouncing it “chit in”, probably as above - perhaps halfway between “chicken” and “shit in”.

      Apparently it’s pronounced “kite in”.

      Not that it’s a word that crops up too much, but I’ve almost certainly made other people say it wrong too :(