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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait there are people who pronounce women with an i?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes? English is only my second language, but the way I hear it:

Woman: Whoman

Women: Wimin or Wimen

The latter is much shorter.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Huh, for me it's more like wuhmen vs wohman.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The i-pronunciation is commonplace enough that some feminists who want to avoid the word “men” spell “women” as “wimmin”, i.e. the phonetic spelling.