Going back to our "t" pronunciation discussion, I was helping my first grader with remote school this morning (he is 50/50 hybrid) and he was watching a video going over vocabulary words. One of the words was "often" and the teacher very specifically pronounced it both ways - one where you basically leave out the t, the other where you very consciously say the t.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
You have more than likely talked or interacted
With one of my relatives .well depending on the length of time you have lived there.
My wife was in awe of all the mailboxes with our last name .
I had to explain what million dollar hole was to her lol.
We use to own the old dilapidated gas station off of 52. It was the only one
For quite sometime.
I accept the Brits' pronunciation JAG-yoo-ar, because it is a British car. They can pronounce as they please.
But when Americans say JAGWIRE, well that just grates my nerves.
JAG-WAR, people! Like it's spelled.
According to WTVD, Virginia beat Syracuse last night on a "buzzard beater". I suggested they call PETA.
Going back to my "wa-la" perturbance, I just saw someone on the other board say, "Se la vie." Folks, if you can't spell French, don't type it.
I spent a semester in France. We annoyed the French students as much as possible - they were pretty rude to us. But we got the most pleasure irritating this snotty guy from Canada who thought his French was above reproach until the professor started correcting him, telling him he was speaking Canadian French, not French French.
When did "on accident" enter the vernacular? I'm hearing it, mostly from kids, and it just sounds wrong to my older ears.
-jk
"peripheal"
Here are my suggestions for pronunciation of a common and less common word:
"Err", as in "to err is human..." It should be pronounced "urr," not "air."
"Dour," as in "the dour Scot," should be pronounced as rhyming with "moor," rather than rhyming with "sour."
Webster's Unabridged agrees with me, based on first listed pronunciation, although other versions are listed.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
There’s a right way and a wrong way to pronounce “machination”. I prefer the wrong way, “mash—“ as opposed to “mock”. A word of particular utility. IMO.
Coupling “there’s a right way and a wrong way” to draw distinction. No there’s not thers’s just a right way. Wrong is wrong and you elevate “the wrong way” To a level of credibility it doesn’t deserve. Fear the sanctimony of the grammar police (because they will contradict themselves frequently.)
Substituting “entitled” for “titled”. Both are correct but I put the former” in the category of overrefinement. A book is titled. A book is entitled? To what may I ask?
Using pedantic when didactic is correct.
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