March 19, 2004

THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BIDNESS

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YourDictionary.com offers this list of the 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English.

If you ask me, they forgot one (okay, technically two.): Social Security.

Folks, it's So-cial-Se-cur-i-ty. Six syllables. Not Sosh-she-cur-ty. That would be four syllables. If you're going to pay into the system and then have it insufficiently provide for you when it comes time to draw money from it, you should be required to pronounce the words correctly.

As noted on the list, I also cringe when President Bush says "NUKE-u-lar" instead of the actual pronounciation of "NEW-clee-ar." And before you jump on me for being partisan, understand that it drove me nuts when Jimmy Carter - a nuclear physicist, for crissakes - pronounced it "NUKE-u-lar" as well.

As Dennis Miller would say, "I think that if you have access to the button, you should be required to pronounce it correctly. I'd hate to have the last few minutes of life on earth marred by a syntax error."

As a side note, I went combing through YourDictionary.com and found this directory sorted by language:

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Interesting. I had a hunch Alabama needed its own dictionary.


Posted by Jeff at March 19, 2004 08:12 AM | TrackBack
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