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Subject: Alternate pronunciation uprising?
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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:06:14 GMT
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It was bad enough during the early weeks of the US invasion of Iraq to
hear poor, uneducated soldiers referring to a 'cachet' of weapons being
discovered instead of a 'cache', then to hear supposed news anchors
picking up the mistaken pronunciation, but now:
it seems that every word with an alternate pronunciation MUST be spoken
with the alternate: in the last month I've heard
formidable
Himalayan
Herculean
and several others I can't recall this minute pronounced on the news
with the secondary pronunciation. Is this just an attempt at affecting a
learned voice or am I falling behind the times?
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