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Originally Posted by issybird
Perhaps there is no one true way, but there are scads of wrong ways! 
Hers 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. |
Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary says that the "mischievious" pronunciation and spelling "are of long standing: evidence for the spelling goes back to the 16th century. Our pronunciation files contain modern attestations ranging from dialect speakers to Herbert Hoover. But both the pronunciation and the spelling are still considered nonstandard."
I've learned to accept the mispronunciation, but I hold the line on the misspelling.