Does “assume” really sound like “a soon”, with the “n” sound? 😂

No, this person has misheard it due to the similarity of N and M sounds

No

Yes and no. This is just bone apple tea (bon appetite) in effect combined with illiteracy. It's a "doggy dog world" out there.

They sound nearly identical to me, having grown up in the southeast United States.

Assume and "a soon" should not sound the same, but I'd imagine there are accents and localisations where it is similar.

Sounds like an ignorant street gangsta wannabe. It's terrible English

No.

M and N are easy to mix up if you can't hear well. I have to use military letters if I need to spell something over the phone m and n sound so similar. Its possible the oop misheard it one time and then couldn't figure out how to spell it.

No. In my accent (Northen England) it sounds like ash-oom, the two words are very dissimilar

Depends on the accent. I hear a lot of AAVE speakers from my area not fully pronounce final consonants, so it’s completely possible that OOP pronounces “assume” and “a soon” the same way.

When you mix in accents and not hearing right, yeah it does sound close. I don't get people saying "no". Assume to me sounds like "A soome". "A soon" is pretty close to that.

In many US and Canadian accents, including most versions of African American Vernacular English, there is a phenomenon called “yod dropping” where the y-like sound- [j] is deleted in words that would otherwise include the sound in a consonant cluster. For example, Americans often make fun the common British/ commonwealth pronunciation of Tuesday- sometimes like “chews day” compared to the typical American “toos day.” So in many US dialects assume is pretty much “a soom,” which I think is very similar to as soon when speaking quickly. It’s not a very common mistake for adults to make, but I bet many children have this misconception. Keep in mind the mistakes that are showcased in r/boneappletea are supposed to be rather unique and very laughable.

N and M are both nasal sounds, differing only by the lips being opened or closed. Both in languages can merge with the vowel (step 1, vowel nasalises, step 2 n/m are dropped from the sound entirely). If that's the case, then they would be homophones, but I'm not aware of any dialect of English that does this. It's possible this was a text to speech mistake Note that in some accents, assume is pronounced asyoom /ʌsjum/ and in others the s and y merge to make ashoom /ʌʃum/. The most common way in America would be asoom /ʌsum/

No: ass-yoom.

I’m from England, and I pronounce it with an ‘m’. I also pronounce it with a ‘y’ sound after the ‘s’

I'm gonna assume (lol) that it's AAVE and the "n" or the "me" part is getting kinda nasalized and the "n" isn't pronounced with the tongue touching the alveolar ridge like usual. The "m" also isn't pronounced with the lips touching. So the two words end up sounding the same.

There's two issues here 1. M and N do sound similar and are often confused when saying a letter. 2. Some English dialects don't pronounce the U in this word. Some do. If the dialect drops the U then "a soon" and "assume" sound more similar. 

PNW USA English speaker here. Yes, in my region/accent I almost exclusively hear "assume" pronounced as "asoom". (Never heard anyone misinterpret it as "a soon", though. That's a pretty wild comprehension error.) The other pronunciation I occasionally hear is "asyoom", but I think a lot of people would think that sounds old-fashioned/pretentious.

No.

No, but the m and the n are close *enough* that with poor enough enunciation, a speech-to-text app might write the wrong thing. I'm pretty sure that a lot of things that are found on that subreddit are less honestly not knowing the correct words and more refusing to proofread your speech-to-text.

For me, yes, the only difference is the m/n—some dialects (those without yod-dropping) will have a different vowel in -ssume and soon (/-sjum/ and /-sum/ respectively).

No this person is illiterate

The whole subreddit is people fucking with words. Boutta put Mackin cheese in the Michael wave

No, this is common or garden illiteracy. For other examples, go look at r/boneappletea

No, this is a poorly educated person

Yes