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Word of the Day a few days ago--oology--had listed as pronunciation: oo-ology, rhyming with the commom mispronunciation of zoology as zoo-ology.
There aren't enough 'o's in the words for those pronunciations. The first 'o' in each words is long. It's zo-ology and o-ology.
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common mispronunciation of zoology as zoo-ologyEric, welcome to the board. As I (in UK) have never heard zo-ology, I looked it up. Cambridge online English dictionary gives zoo-ology with zo-ology as a variant, but the Cambridge American dictionary gives zo-ology, that is if I am reading the phonetic runes correctly. Cambridge American: zoology zou'al.e.dzi (turn "e" upside down!) "ou"= as in nose Cambridge English: zoology zu'al.e.dzi (turn "a" and "e" upside down!) "u"= as in influenza So I am allowed to say zoo-ology, but you ain't  Rod
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So I am allowed to say zoo-ology, but you ain't
Go ahead and use it anyway, Eric! Be a bit of a devil!
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<< <<So I am allowed to say zoo-ology, but you ain't>>
Go ahead and use it anyway, Eric! Be a bit of a devil! wow>>
If you must, but for the love of God, spell it zooology.
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The quoted text below is from a post I made when Eric had no other responses to his question. I found it by going into my profile and clicking "show all user's posts" According to the listing it was made, Board time, on Thursday 10 May, at 18:18:51. Yet, it DOES NOT SHOW UP in the thread at all. What is going on?
There aren't enough 'o's in the words for those pronunciations. It's zo(long 'o')-ology and o(log 'o')-ology
Welcome aBoard, Eric. Seeing your name sent me rushing to your profile as Eric Rush is the name of a sporting deity here in NZ. As to your post, perhaps, the AWAD mail was in fact a eulogy to zoo-logy and oo-logy.
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What is going on? I dunno... uh, you done anything to offend Ćnigma lately? P.S. love the eulogy-zoology-oology
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I dunno... uh, you done anything to offend Ćnigma lately?
The thought flashed across my mind that it might be AWAD's founder extending his policy of not replying to my messages.
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max, do me a BIG favor and take this link...
[thread now password protected]
hang on tight! [i'm a wordsmith, not an engineer, jim]
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Thanks, tsuwm,m that was both weird and wonderful. Perhaps Anu is trialling a new moderation technique - lettting the people he wants to screen out think that their posts are being accepted, while sending them into The Twilight ZoneŽ 
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Looks like what we have here is the first known case of meta-thread at AWAD. Be afwaid. Be vewwy, vewwy afwaid....
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