transcription: you’ve heard of be gay do crimes, now get ready for, be trans throw hands. be queer instill fear. be bi go for the eye. be pan end it with a bang. be ace punch face.

      • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 days ago

        Nope, the bi prefix meaning ‘two’ is almost always pronounced ‘bye’. Bicycle, bipolar, bisect, binary, bilingual, etc.

        Bicycle is extra messed up because you don’t pronounce the ‘cycle’ like ‘sigh cull’, you pronounce it ‘sickle’. So instead of ‘bee-sigh-cull’ it’s ‘bye-sickle’.