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J4mes_bond25 Posted 19 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Mispronounciation ??

0 Do you know why people consistently mispronounce words that they KNOW they are mispronouncing? For example, George Bush (and a zillion others who know better) insist on pronouncing the word NUCLEAR "NU-CU-LAR". Other similarly mispronounced words: REALTY (REE-LITTY), REALTOR (REE-LI-TOR). These gaffes are peculiar to me because if one can read and understand phonics, one can clearly see the way the word SHOULD be said. If a person learns a word incorrectly, then says it wrong for decades, is it impossible to train the brain or tongue to pronounce the word right?02br
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0 These aren't mispronunciations, they're dialect differences. htmlcnucular

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0 These aren't mispronunciations, they're dialect differences. Many 05000 say 05100.0230hrefhttp://m-w.com/dictionary/nuclearceducated people231hrefhttp://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/nucular.htmlcnucular
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0Well, for one thing, the process that changes "nuclear" to /nuk@lr=/ is that same one that changed "brid" to "bird", so with that logic, it is a mispronunciation say "bird", because the "correct" pronunciation is "brid". Remeber, phonetics 01b00describes02b00 how words are said, it does not "prescribe" /pr=skraIb/ how they should be said. Actually the pronunciation of "
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