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Dear Readers,
Have you seen our numbers lately? Forvo is nearing an important milestone by closing in on 3 million pronunciations on its site, and we canğt wait to hear what the 3 millionth word will be. Will it be a wild card out of the Pashto section? Or perhaps another ”˜helloğ greeting us from afar? Here are our theories:
Theory 1: Merry Christmas — see our post from Most Pronounced Words of 2014. If statistics mean anything, our money is on some translation of yuletide well-wishing.
Theory 2: Happy New Year in Bengali — Holidays are always a strong contender, and the Bengali New Year is only a few weeks away. Plus, you have over 245 million people in Bengal- case in point.
Theory 3: Expletives — ”˜Mierdağ seems most likely since it hits close to home and there are already 31 ways to pronounce it in Forvo, but perhaps a user from a far off country we will enlighten us with their translation of poop in one of the other 323 languages we host on Forvo.
Theory 4: A horse with a weird name — Does anyone know why racing horses have such odd names?
Theory 5: (Something involving a current event) As so much of what we search for online is in the moment, this is probably the strongest theory out of the five. But what the future will bring, who knows.
Those are some of our guesses – what are yours?
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Mikal April 19, 2015 at 5:03 pm Hi, Your audio buttons have stopped working on Safari, Firefox, and Seamonkey browsers (all up to date) on a Mac running Mavericks. Additionally, the Captcha thing on your contact page refuses valid entries, so I had a hard time even telling you about this!! Please investigate and fix.
Your audio buttons have stopped working on Safari, Firefox, and Seamonkey browsers (all up to date) on a Mac running Mavericks. Additionally, the Captcha thing on your contact page refuses valid entries, so I had a hard time even telling you about this!! Please investigate and fix.
choy man April 19, 2015 at 5:38 pm I wish to listen to some pronunciation from the site, but after i check on the play button besides the word, it didn’t have any respond. Then i thought that need to register and i go register. After i had fill up all the detail, i cannot register as well. The system state that i have enter wrong code and i find out doesn’t givr any wrong code….. I can’t any path to tell you this problem so I write it here. Sorry for any inconvenience. Thank you.
I wish to listen to some pronunciation from the site, but after i check on the play button besides the word, it didn’t have any respond. Then i thought that need to register and i go register. After i had fill up all the detail, i cannot register as well. The system state that i have enter wrong code and i find out doesn’t givr any wrong code….. I can’t any path to tell you this problem so I write it here. Sorry for any inconvenience. Thank you.
joanna April 19, 2015 at 6:27 pm I had signed up awhile ago.. I went into this site to further my language and I am not having any luck, I even tried to create another account. It’s not letting me… I enter the numbers for security and keeps giving me new numbers… Can I please get some assistance.. thank you
I had signed up awhile ago.. I went into this site to further my language and I am not having any luck, I even tried to create another account. It’s not letting me… I enter the numbers for security and keeps giving me new numbers… Can I please get some assistance.. thank you
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