I’ve always been afraid to even click on that thing, it looks like arcane academic patois that isn’t meant for mere mortals. But the tooltips make it very accessible.

The tooltips only appear to work on English words, however.

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      2 days ago

      they do, it’s just written down. IPA isn’t that hard to learn.

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      The whole what? As in you think each Wikipedia article should start by describing every sound in the word?

      Skeuomorph (sk like skin, eu like you, m like mat, o like orphan, ph like off)