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24/01/2008 09:08:03
 
 
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Politics
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Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01283222
Message ID:
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>>>On the pronunciation front, one of my top items is "temperature." Last time I looked (just now <g>), there were 2 r's in that word, but most people elide the first one.
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>>How about: Secyetary, envirement, supposably (more a US thing that)?
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>Can't say I've heard those. And, of course, none of us have mentioned the most famous of the mispronunciations: nukular. <g>

That, of course, went without saying :-)

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>Also, "asterix" for "asterisk."

I suppose that's understandable if people are more familiar with the french cartoon character than the names of certain punctuation marks et al, eg solidus, elipsis, ampersand, commercial at

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>Tamar
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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