• morphballganon
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    I always thought the mispronunciation was more of a puhscetti than a buhsgetti

    • slurpeesoforionOP
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      I’ve encountered both. The two I mentioned got the point across.

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        We say spuhghetti around these parts.

        I feel like I’m misunderstanding the joke though.

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          They’re talking about when young Italian kids are first learning the word do they mispronounce it the same way.

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            I’m just confused on the buh part. I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it like that.

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        The pronunciations you have in your head are mispronunciations that some children & uneducated people use.

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          Yes, that’s why OP is asking if Italian children make similar mispronunciations. Like is it an artifact of learning a word that sounds like that in general or of learning it in the context of English specifically?