BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoAnd people who don't read make fun of you for it.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square166fedilinkarrow-up11.12Karrow-down120
arrow-up11.1Karrow-down1imageAnd people who don't read make fun of you for it.lemmy.worldBonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square166fedilink
minus-squareStyxia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 months agoEpitome and Penchant for me. Mocked mercilessly for those two.
minus-squareObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 months agoOh yeah, epitome for me too. It was the epi-tome.
minus-squarenodiet@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months 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-up2·6 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!