Shtrawberry. Drinking shtraw as well.

Any time I try and pronounce it with a hard S and not SH, it ends up sounding like a bad 90s parody of a gay man. I practically flounce.

I can’t be the only one…

  • SlightlyNormal@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I’ve never paid mind to it, but I think I pronounce it like you do. If I focus on not hitting the sh sound it sounds English, my normal accent is West-coast American.

    Straw, strength, strip, all of those words I place a blending sh sound before the tr sound. If anything it might sound closest to ‘schrawberry’.

    Interesting! I’ll pay attention to how others say it going forward.