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I always find these funny, I know the intent but so very rarely is it helpful. I’m probably just too dumb to figure it out
Ahh, yes of course, G-RICE-PE... I am sure there are people out there who know what those cursed letters mean, but it ain't me either.
Yeah but remember the R is an upside and backwards lowercase r sound. Not a standard R sound
You can tell because of the way it is
That's because the English r sound is a weird one.
https://ipa-reader.com/
It's really really useful if you're a linguist, a certain kind of autistic, or willing to consult the IPA chart and sound out a bunch of common words
There's probably a site somewhere where you paste it and it gives you the sound.
Google translate seems to not have the phonetic alphabet, but there's probably something out there that has it.
https://ipa-reader.com/