(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Hello people, so recently Chris, Jinsul, Kas and I have had a little Dispute on how Aussie is pronounced.
I just want to know how you think Aussie is pronounced.
Kas and I think that it is pronounced "Ozzie" and so does most people, but Jinsul and Chris being from America think it is pronounces "Ossie".
So what do you guys think?

Please no arguements in the comments or in the SB on how it is pronounced.. cheers

Being from Australia saying Ossie is just plain wrong. You have to have some sort of z sound in it or it just sounds fucking retarded.

when americans think they know how to pronounce the name of a country better than the people who live in the country.
its auzzie btw

Residency isn't a dictating factor, unfortunately. I'd love to see the orthoepy of "ss" and "z" sharing any phonetic similarities.

what do you mean residency isn't a dictating factor, it's their country

Fucking Americans. It's Ozzie.

Because there are grammatical rules, and pronouncing it like Ŏs-ē or, more accurately, Ŏ/z/-ē, is 100% correct. It's a far fetch to expect anyone who understands basic grammar to assume that Aussie=Ozzy because the two share no similarities. There are orthographic conventions (borrowed from French language, mostly) to indicate the voice of s should be an s: double the s (cf. loses vs. losses). It's a softer s, but still a voice of s as opposed to z (cf. dessert). If residency held any merit, could I claim that the t in often should be a hard enunciation just because I'm a native English speaker?

It really comes down to a point of localization. However you would pronounce ss in "dessert" follows to how you'd pronounce the ss in "Aussie" because they share the same grammatical rules. It's still a voice of s, and will always be a voice of s, because it's spelled with double s.

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no idea how I say it

I think that when you say Aussie like Ossie it doesn't right it just sounds wrong. People in Australia say it with a z sound witch is Ozzie hence the fact that people say "you come from Oz" or "you come from Aus" with if you say that with a s sound it just sounds weird witch is why people say it with a z sound.