These are the questions that keep me up at night

[conuly]

I can't figure out if the word "wanderlust" is a loanword or a calque. I think it must be a calque if we say it like we'd say an English word spelled that way, and a loanword if we say it like we'd say a German word spelled that way (or like we think Germans would say it, anyway).

Poll #19414 Wanderlust

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How do you say the word "wanderlust"?

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With a w at the beginning
112 (89.6%)

With a v at the beginning
6 (4.8%)

I'm not sure. I've never actually said it or heard it said
7 (5.6%)

I'm not familiar with this word
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[muninnhuginn]

As an English-English speaker (of the Northern persuasion), I have to quibble with the notion of BBC English: the BEEB these days allow far more variation than they used to, and I suspect aren't a standard anything at all.

Meanwhile, "garage" is pronounced to rhyme with "marriage" (except when making jokes about Nigel Farage). And "forehead" is "forrid" for me, but I'm old and probably learned it via the rhyme in the nursery rhyme--and no child in England these days would know that nursery rhyme: if it's not "The Wheels on the bus" or "Twinkle twinkle", it's not in their repertoire. Sadly. Our folk history is much impoverished.

[hudebnik]

As you probably know, in American English, "garage" and "barrage" are both near-universally pronounced with a soft "zh" sound and the accent on the second syllable.

I'd never heard "forrid" until probably high school or college, and then only as an explanation for the nursery rhyme.