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- Which movie is the scene from?
  
  This is from the series The Good Place.
- I don't get it. Aren't they pronounced mostly the same?
  
  I'll do my best here - "Aristotle" is pronounced "Air-ih-stot-ul" whereas Chipotle is more like "Chip-oat-lee"
Because the words are from two different languages?
- Racist
  
  how do you figure
You've just been pronouncing females wrong this whole time and everybody was too embarrassed to correct you.

Fuh-MAH-lays, just like it looks.
- By jove, there the whole time!
  
  Is that pronounced Jove like dove or Jove like hoes?
- Haha, silly hu-mans.
Single hot femalés in your area!
I like my fe-mah-lays like I like my ta-mah-lays. Steaming hot and wrapped in corn husks!

Right?!? Guys?!?
- You can just say Midwestern.
  
  Midwestern.
  
  Now what?
- A good girl in a straw hat with her arms out in a corn field.
  
  That is a scarecrow.
  
  Edit:
  
  spoiler, context
  
  I just went back to the song and watched it again, which turned into a Bo Burnham marathon. He is absolutely amazing!
I know this is a joke but idc. The reason for basically every quirk of pronunciation/spelling in English is borrowed words, of which English has very many. Tamales is an obvious/good example.
- ~~Except it's not even a borrowed word. It's still a Spanish word.~~ nope, I was wrong.
  
  It's a borrowed word because we don't have a translation, though. Tamales are tamales. Also we say tamale for singular but it's tamal in Spanish. It's a loan word in every way.
I sometimes like to mispronounce stuff, that I know the proper pronunciation of, just for kicks and this is just ammo for my annoying habit.
- You put the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syl-LAB-le
  
  Or you butcher accents. Like jalapeno.
- I love me a good ch-asm
  
  You just like causing cha-os.
- Norm?
Reminds me of this poem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos
That would mean "male" is pronounced "molly."
- Really more like mall-a (like the letter a, not “ah”).
- Only if you pronounce "molly" as "marley"!
- I'm a nice little molly
I am just the right amount of high for this one. I can coast on this tweet for a solid 20 minute think sesh.
I'm struggling here because I don't know what that word is. So I can't work out what the ultimate pronunciation of female is either
- Tamales are a type of food. (Pronounced like Tom-all-ays)
  
  So the joke is making you read "females" (fee-males) like Fem-all-ays
  
  Tah-MAH-lehs would be more accurate. 'Females', read as in Spanish, would be feh-MAH-lehs.
  
  It's easy, you read Spanish as if every vowel had that 'h'. Vowels do not change their sound.
  
  That's a horrible explanation, right? Here. That's how you always pronounce the vowels.
Why can’t ‘tamales’ just be pronounced like “ta-males”?

Otherwise we’ll have to start pronouncing ‘males’ like “mall-ehs”.
- how very Canadian, eh?
Just pronounce it oddly enough that people look at you weirdly.

Femalès, with emphasis on the last e. Like "learnèd" (learn-ed, a wise person).
And why aren't Batman and Goodman pronounced the same.

I think it should be Bat-mun.
I'm going to start pronouncing them both the same
A better question: How many folks thought they misspelled the second "females"?
how naming a gastro strip club Females and Tamales?
- Operate out of an old train car. Dolly's Females and Tamales Trolley.

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