@[email protected] to Microblog [email protected]English • 4 months agoAnd people who don't read make fun of you for it.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square168fedilinkarrow-up11.12Karrow-down120
arrow-up11.1Karrow-down1imageAnd people who don't read make fun of you for it.lemmy.world@[email protected] to Microblog [email protected]English • 4 months agomessage-square168fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•4 months agoEpitome and Penchant for me. Mocked mercilessly for those two.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•4 months agoOh yeah, epitome for me too. It was the epi-tome.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 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•4 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!