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I'm on a roll here.....
The one that irks me most is the ever increasing usage of "dee-fence" rather than the original "d'fence".
A big THANKYOU (not) to US basketball for this one.
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I'd go with sha-see myself.
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A) It's forte not forté and parperly pernounced [fort], although the [forté] pronunciation is popular; see Usage Note at http://www.bartleby.com/61/99/F0269900.html) 2) Time back way back when we were still kulchad enough to say brid instead of bird ascian and acsian were both considered correct. I have always assumed that ascian was pronounced [ah-skee-an] but come to think of it the sc was normally pronounced [sh]. The ME was asken. That may be due to Danish influence. Dunno about no [arks], no matter what you do with the r the a is an æsh in good old-fashion Murcun.
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Just thought of another..."chassis"
Dear stales: Did you never see a sassy lassy with a classy chassis?
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About chassis...I only hear chass-ee in my neck of the woods in Virginia...
About during; I only hear derr-ring;
Abt. Tuesday, only Toos-day;
On February, I would like to hear Feb-ru-air-ee, but I usually hear Feb-yu-air-ee;
How about didn't? I hear a swallowed "Di-nt," and rarely, what I prefer, "dih-dint." Maybe that's just me, however...
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Oh, good thread, folks.  Lucy, delighted to see you back, Sweetie! I have never heard juring for during--how in the world could anyone get to that transition, anyway?? I have also never heard during as derring. Daring is "derring". (By the way, why is derring-do always written that way, and not as daring-do?) Some of the differences in syllable stress are regional in the U.S.--we in the South tend to "firstify" things: DE-fense sounds fine to me, as does IN-surance, though both are also heard here with the accent on the second sylLAble(hi, tsuwm). People from a bit further north and east of here (upstate Ohio, etc.) also have a pronunciation of long o that sounds odd to me--a very quick ee sound, almost: hyome, slyow. Hmm--now that I'm trying to hear it in my head, I'm thinking it's more of an "a" sound, and I can't write it for the life of me. I'll throw in my primary screaming-down-the-street one again: Antartica. Question: does anyone pronounce Wednesday any way other than Wens-day?
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Well, now : how about suite as in a suite of furniture - tables, chairs and couch (or sofa {there's another one creeping in}) or other things that "belong together" and also meaning a group of people - a retinue.
I learned to pronounce suite as sweet but also have heard it pronounced as suit like a man's suit.
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Question: does anyone pronounce
Wednesday any way other than Wens-day?
I tend to say Woden's Day, just in cast that particular god isn't dead. Curious how we English speakers commemorate a Nordic god on that day, whereas Latin types commemorate Mercury, as in Miercoles in Spanish, Mercredi in French, and Mercoledi in Italian.
As for the aks for ask switch, I've observed this almost entirely among US blacks. I've also heard people use a short a, while others use a long a when saying "ask." Who says which?
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