Talk:Scelet/@comment-17760674-20160303065857/@comment-17760674-20160305174710

I finally have a chance to listen to the audio on the page for "skelet" lol it wasn't working on my phone


 * 1) The pronunciation there is "skuh-let", not "skah-let". I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that the "uh" sound = the "ah" sound? I looked it up, but I can't find anything on whether or not Dutch has the thing that we have in English where unstressed "ah" and "eh" sounds tend to become "uh" sounds (to the point where it may become "official" pronunciation) (examples: relief's first syllable, enemy's second syllable, pretend's first syllable).


 * 1) Your reasoning makes sense, but my issue is that the spelling doesn't match up. As far as I can tell from searching, "scelet" is outdated in favor of "skelet"; while "scelet" may have been pronounced "skeh-let" back when it was still used regularly, it looks like it was used before we got standarized English spelling unless I'm looking at the wrong things.

I really do think the guy should be named "Skelet" instead of "Scelet" purely for pronunciation reasons (skeh-let vs. seh-let). I wouldn't mind renaming his page myself, but I keep getting the feeling that you would just move it right back to "Scelet" lol so that's why I haven't already moved his page to "Skelet" xD