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Drives me bonkers!
Funny, I have always heard it pronounced, and pronounced it myself, with the stress on the second syllable. me, too.
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AHD4 does list both pronunciations.
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AHD4 does list both pronunciations.
No doubt, but I had never heard it. Though I don't get around much in the States.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I've never heard it either, and I've gotten around. I would have thought it was a pronunciation from people who had seen it in print well before hearing it in the wild. I suppose this is still a possibility but common enough for AHD to record it.
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I would have thought it was a pronunciation from people who had seen it in print well before hearing it in the wild.
Yes, when I was a wee lad, before I heard it pronounced, I mispronounced the pseudo- in pseudo-intellectual like suede oh. It jollied up the conversation i was having ...
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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early internal pronunciations..
epitome I read as EP i tome
paradigm was PAIR a DIG em
hegemony = HEDJ-uh-MOH-nee (but this is a variant in AHD4)
(I think we've been down this road before.)
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Yeah, but we say INsurance, too, and sometimes warranTEE. (Have to say I can't stand that latter one.)
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my pet hate is the word probably said like prob-ly, missing the middle 'ab'.
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Hates make even worse pets than peeves do. Listen carefully; you'll hear people talking about Present Obama, sosh security, and who knows what-all. If you listen really carefully (and this is hard to do) you might even hear yourself doing it. Thing is our brains outrun our mouths in colloquial speech.
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Ah but then there is the problem of bought/brought that everyone tends to mix up. That is incredibly annoying and has led to the mantra bought is to buy, brought is to bring which inevitably leads to 'what? that's what I said'.
Oh and also on the weekend instead of at
----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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