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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: Often mispronounced? #52941 01/18/02 08:56 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Oh, I think we all mangle some aspects of the language in normal speech. Faldage is certainly correct (I didn't say that, I didn't say that, I didn't say that ... ad nauseam) when he says that we tend to mentally interpolate missing letters or "correct" total mispronounciation of words. Yet another reason why furriners have trouble with the lingo, I suppose. If you want painfully correct diction MOST of the time, I suggest you listen to the Beeb. The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter frequently #52942 01/18/02 09:35 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,586 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,586 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA Returning to the original question - can't call it an old British usage to say off-ten. I offer W. S. Gilbert's MAJOR-GENERAL: ...I see where we are getting confused. When you said "orphan", did you mean "orphan", a person who has lost his parents, or "often", frequently? _Pirates_ opened in London New Year's Eve, 1879, with nary a thought that often could be pronounced with a t; if so, no ambiguity whatsoever, and hence no humor. Not to say that some people don't pronounce it the other way; just that a British accent isn't the source. (Or maybe...it was Shakespeare who made us pronounce the T! In Julius Caesar ! "The evil that men do lives after them/The good is often tarred with their bones"?) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter frequently deleted #52943 01/18/02 09:39 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,586 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,586 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA My word. (Actually reed's word.) So I do. You say I repeat myself, that I'm redundant, that I say the same thing over and over again? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: frequently #52944 01/19/02 12:19 AM Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 688 A Angel addict Angel addict A Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 688 Talk about FREQUENTLY? Wofa...you gotta stutter there! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: frequently #52945 01/19/02 12:30 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Talk about FREQUENTLY? Wofa...you gotta stutter there! He offenly reprises himself. there's nary a T in of(t)enly Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 4 of 4 1 2 3 4 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,415 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 1 members (1 invisible), 807 guests, and 5 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 38 A C Bowden 26 LukeJavan8 4 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,586 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,922 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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