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Old 04-26-2017, 02:49 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by ekbell View Post
I admit that I tend to assume that most pronunciation differences are a matter of different dialects and the fact that there is no one true way of speaking English (IMO).
Perhaps there is no one true way, but there are scads of wrong ways!

Here's an example that I hear unfortunately frequently: the words mischievous and erudite. Some narrators throw in an extra "i", as in "mischievious" and "eriudite." Just wrong.

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