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Jackie #194307 11/28/10 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted By: Jackie
...(word melts from mind Picayunish? smile


That is exactly the word that disappeared from my mind! Thanks smile


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You're welcome! smile

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I hear miss chee vi us a lot more than I did. I also hear proNOUNciation frequently, even on the BBC.

And of course Nucular power.

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I hear miss chee vi us a lot more than I did. I also hear proNOUNciation frequently, even on the BBC.

I hear air for err, often with the t pronounced, and intelligentsia with a soft g (all variant pronunciations of the past century or less), but I'm not losing sleep over it. Oh, and flaccid with the first c soft, rather than hard [sic].


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tsk,tsk,tsk. (yuk,yuk)


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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd

..... Oh, and [i]flaccid
with the first c soft, rather than hard [sic].


a bit of Viagra might help with that.

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Air is the pronunciation I learned for err, and by far the more often heard, not that it's common in everyday speech. I don't believe I've every heard a hard c in flaccid. It all depends on where you're from, I guess.

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I am with you on the "air' for 'err'. that is the way
I learned it.


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Same here. Apparently I don't always air on the side of caution.

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Cannot get it mixed up with 'ear', either.


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