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[–] BadDog 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

nope i get your memories are not the same but for many of us Berensteins is a reality and far from the only thing that's changed.

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[–] FinnTheHuman ago 

nope i get your memories are not the same but for many of us Berensteins is a reality and far from the only thing that's changed.

Exactly. There are hundreds, possibly thousands of people who remember it being "stein" (myself and my family and friends included). Only one of my friends remembered it "stain" but he hadn't seen the books until later in life, where I had them as a child.

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[–] TeaVirus ago  (edited ago)

Are you by any chance native in speaking a non-phonetical languange, namely ENGLISH?

Because pronunciation in English is, no offense, fucking dumb in this aspect.

Stain = can be pronounced Stain [stane] (as in dirty spot), OR Sh-tein, OR Sh-tiin. With English language you never know which pronunciation to adopt, since spoken English doesnt respect written English and vice versa.

I believe this is an issue only with native Enlish-speakers.

English is a non phonetical language, written form =/= spoken form.

*Some languages are "phonetic". That means you can look at a written word and know how to pronounce it. Or you can hear a word and know how to spell it. With phonetic languages, there is a direct relationship between the spelling and the sound.

It is important to understand that English is not a phonetic language. So we often do not say a word the same way it is spelled.

Some words can have the same spelling but different pronunciation, for example:

I like to read [ri:d].
I have read [red] that book.

Some words have different spelling but the same pronunciation, for example:

I have read [red] that book.
My favourite colour is red [red].

All languages are spoken first and written second. If you only speak English, it is very easy to pronounce. The difficulty comes when you write English and then try to speak it:

th**ough** (like o in go)
thr**ough** (like oo in too)
c**ough** (like off in offer)
r**ough** (like uff in suffer)
pl**ough** (like ow in flower)
**ough**t (like aw in saw)
bor**ough** (like a in above)*