Comment by DonHopkins
Comment by DonHopkins 5 days ago
You should hear the Dutch say "yah-vah-shchkript" with a throat clear and spit take.
Comment by DonHopkins 5 days ago
You should hear the Dutch say "yah-vah-shchkript" with a throat clear and spit take.
Maybe they're just taking advantage of the opportunity to expectorate then.
The Dutch pronunciation of javascript differs from the English one only in the first syllable. Roughly zero dutchies would insert the Dutch schr- sound in a loanword, and even fewer would do that while leaving the foreign -ipt suffix intact.