@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 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.world@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square166fedilink
minus-square@Styxia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish11•10 months agoEpitome and Penchant for me. Mocked mercilessly for those two.
minus-squareObstreperousCanadianlinkfedilinkEnglish7•10 months agoOh yeah, epitome for me too. It was the epi-tome.
minus-square@nodiet@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish2•10 months agoSo apparently for the latter you can just claim to be using the american pronunciation https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/penchant
minus-square@Welt@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkEnglish2•10 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!