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Native: English || Pretty decent: Ancient Greek || Alright: Ancient Hebrew || Eh: Welsh || Basic: Mandarin Chinese || Very basic: French, Latin, Nisuese, Apsish
Conlangs: Nisuese, , Kaptaran, Pseudo-Ligurian

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Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.

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Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.

I'm used to /ʤ/ in Azerbaijan and Elijah and /ʒ/ in Beijing (almost universally in America, as linguoboy said), with Taj Mahal equally likely to be either in my experience (though hearing /ʒ/ in any of them wouldn't really surprise me). I have /ʤ/ in all of them, which is natural in Azerbaijan, Elijah, and Taj Mahal, and deliberately cultivated in Beijing.

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"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”

I think the alternative pronunciation of parmesan is with a /z/... Nor necessarily borrowed from any language, just a spelling pronunciation I guess.

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Sunàqʷa the Sea Lamprey says:

Last night, a friend repeatedly pronounced Thames [θeɪ̭mz] until another friend couldn't take it any more and corrected him. Even after that, he changed to [tʰæmz], presumably under the influence of the spelling.

(Before anyone asks: He's from Indiana, not the Northeast, so he probably isn't being influenced by the local pronunciation of the Thames River in Connecticut.)

I used to pronounce Thames [θeɪ̭mz], too.

I just discovered the word is spelled enmity, not emnity. Which makes sense etymologically, but sounds totally wrong. Like no matter how many times I say /ˈɛnmɪtiː/ to myself, I can't get it to sound acceptable. I don't think there's a word in my active vocabulary with an /nm/ sequence like that that I don't assimilate. (E.g. enmesh is [ɪmʹmɛʃ] IMD.)

For me /n/ assimilates to following labials as [m] universally, including across word boundaries. (There's this bridge here in Milwaukee named the Hoan Bridge, and I always thought of it as the Home Bridge as a little kid because the only pronunciation I knew was the one with /n/ assimilated as [m]. Likewise I thought of in between as a single word "imbetween" for the longest time.)

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Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.

For a long time, I thought fuzz had the FOOT vowel.