Comb is pronounced cowm, the o in it is pronounced the same as the word "oh" basically. As for beach and bitch, ea is stressed, meaning it's pronunciation is stretched out a bit more than the i in bitch, beach is actually homophonous to beech though. 2 to and too, as well as come and cum are actual homophones though, there's little to no difference in their pronunciations except maybe in some accents. Homophones aren't really a unique feature to English, a ton of languages have them, Japanese for instance has way more homophones because a) they have fewer syllables and possible sounds than English and a lot of other languages (eg r and l are pronounced the same, h and f are also somewhat interchangeable, they don't have a "th" sound like in math or breathe, they don't have a zh sound, etc) and b) Because their writing system is old as hell there are millions of characters which sound the exact same but either look and/or mean very differently, ie homophones. Even more confusing than homophones are homonyms, like bat (baseball) and bat (animal), set (volleyball) and set (math), or butt (receiver of joke), butt (unit of measurement) or butt (body part).
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What is the difference?
Comb, Come, C"m ?
2 and To ?
Beach and B"tch ?
and many more.
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Comb is pronounced cowm, the o in it is pronounced the same as the word "oh" basically. As for beach and bitch, ea is stressed, meaning it's pronunciation is stretched out a bit more than the i in bitch, beach is actually homophonous to beech though. 2 to and too, as well as come and cum are actual homophones though, there's little to no difference in their pronunciations except maybe in some accents. Homophones aren't really a unique feature to English, a ton of languages have them, Japanese for instance has way more homophones because a) they have fewer syllables and possible sounds than English and a lot of other languages (eg r and l are pronounced the same, h and f are also somewhat interchangeable, they don't have a "th" sound like in math or breathe, they don't have a zh sound, etc) and b) Because their writing system is old as hell there are millions of characters which sound the exact same but either look and/or mean very differently, ie homophones. Even more confusing than homophones are homonyms, like bat (baseball) and bat (animal), set (volleyball) and set (math), or butt (receiver of joke), butt (unit of measurement) or butt (body part).
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Most Hololive fans must be American, because there's no one here.
I have literally no idea what I was talking about in this comment.
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I thought by now she would've mastered English pronunciation.