If some mispronunciation is alright in the English language, why is it alright to come down so hard on other mispronunciation?
We're going through a period where a very recent word is settling into the common language and finding its own pronunciation.
Or do we brand all those time-specialists who can't pronounce Greenwich properly (green-witch) as ignorant fools who shouldn't be allowed to be in charge of the earth's time as many people seem to want to do to people who pronounce nuclear as nucular?
Personally, pronunciation shouldn't be the most important aspect of a leader's command of the nuclear arsenal -- it's the brains to know not to use it that should be more important. But that's just my opinion.
Craig Parmerlee wrote:
At 05:47 PM 9/12/2003 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote:
At 10:02 AM 09/12/03, Andrew Stiller wrote: Also circular, muscular, crepuscular, avuncular, testicular, and no doubt more than we're both forgetting.
When Popeye mispronounces muscles as "mus-kulls", it is a good laugh. I don't find it at all funny, charming, cute, endearing, and certainly not reassuring when the Commander-in-Chief of the biggest arsenal of bombs in the world mispronounces nuclear as "nukey-ler".
It isn't a case of the evolution of the language. It is a case of the Peter Principle.
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