@[email protected] to Microblog [email protected]English • 5 months agoAnd people who don't read make fun of you for it.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square167arrow-up11.12Karrow-down120
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•5 months agoEpitome and Penchant for me. Mocked mercilessly for those two.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•5 months agoOh yeah, epitome for me too. It was the epi-tome.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoSo apparently for the latter you can just claim to be using the american pronunciation https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/penchant
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoAll mispronunciations can be defended with linguistic descriptivism. It’s usually a pissweak argument though!
Epitome and Penchant for me. Mocked mercilessly for those two.
Oh yeah, epitome for me too. It was the epi-tome.
So apparently for the latter you can just claim to be using the american pronunciation https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/penchant
All mispronunciations can be defended with linguistic descriptivism. It’s usually a pissweak argument though!