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#111390 09/12/03 12:34 PM
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epidemic omnivore


#111391 09/12/03 05:06 PM
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Which brings to mind naiveté, bel, which one always heard pronounced as naa-eve-e-TAY...now it's more often heard (incorrectly or descriptively?) as naa-EVE-e-tee.


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Been Englishified has it.

Well, that is often the case when words are adopted from other languages. I can say the new pronunciation grates in my ears but that is because I know the word and the way we pronounce it. To anyone who's never naa-eve-e-tay the new way would seem perfectly acceptable.


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Englishified

You'll know it's been Englishified when you hear knave i tee.


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knave i tee.

Yuck!


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knuh-TIVV-ih-tee

Sorry. Just had to.


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