Can we not say "Skypie" anymore?
Sorry if I sound arrogant, but I'm basically fed up with people continuously mispronouncing the word "Skype" all the time. Ever since the launch of this voice talk program a few years back, I've been hearing people from Hong Kong and China calling it "Skypie". I'm not sure as to where and who first started to spread out this alien articulation, but pardon me, for those who have learnt English for so many years, especially the better educated ones, do you just follow suit without a single second of hesitation? I'm aware of the painful fact that the rules of English pronunciation are usually disguised in some vague underlying principles, and it is particularly true when it comes to vowels. Unlike Spanish, which is essentially "what you write is what you hear", the presence of the "schwa" sound in English vowels often make them not distinguishable from each other when they are not stressed in the word. Having said that, it does NOT j...