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I have not heard that, but increasingly often ... rarely correcting mis-hearings by reading (well-edited) texts. I completely agree with the curmudgeon, yet another manifestation of the prevalence of televison over reading. It even extends to ...

Larry G wrote !! Image of the day. (Good one.) What do you suppose an eagle drives? A Mazda Washu? http://media.ford.com/washu/ Mazda Washu means "Eagle's Wing" in Japanese. The vehicle's design was based on the image of an eagle

Don't try it with words taken from Italian with no change in the spelling, e.g. focaccia. Fortunately, the Italian rule is simpler: before e or i, c or cc is /tS/; elsewhere, it's /k/. There are a couple of exceptions: soccer &

At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html When you ... the pronunciation that's given to the spelling

it 'Aww'", Not so. There are speakers of standard dialects of English, including me (I was raised in Central Illinois and have lived in Minneapolis for 30 years), who pronounce "cot" identically to "caught" and

Souping up? Except that's not at all what the announcer meant. Anyway, there's plenty of websites discussing the word. The most accepted spelling seems to be 'zhuzh', which reasonably well captures the pronunciation. Aha, yes,

Juicing up? Souping up? Except that's not at all what the announcer meant. Anyway, there's plenty of websites discussing the word. The most accepted spelling seems to be 'zhuzh', which reasonably well captures the pronunciation. Dylan

"Molly Mockford" (Email Removed) a écrit dans le message de : Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced Yooniversity (i.e. a consonant-sound rather than a

In addition there is "viz," the abbreviation for "videlicet" which is sometimes given the spelling pronunciation /vIz/, that is, "vizz." ... Dictionary.*) A particularly disliked pronunciation, I would imagine, given