BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agoAnd people who don't read make fun of you for it.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square158fedilinkarrow-up11.11K
arrow-up11.11KimageAnd people who don't read make fun of you for it.lemmy.worldBonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square158fedilink
minus-squareStyxia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·18 days agoEpitome and Penchant for me. Mocked mercilessly for those two.
minus-squareObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·18 days agoOh yeah, epitome for me too. It was the epi-tome.
minus-squarenodiet@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 days agoSo apparently for the latter you can just claim to be using the american pronunciation https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/penchant
minus-squareWelt@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 days 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!