WE HAVE YET ANOTHER CACOEPIST IN THE RANKS: THE DREADED METATHESIS STRIKES AGAIN
That’s right, Sarah Louise Heath Palin pronounces nuclear as “nucular.”
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- September 7, 2008
That’s right, Sarah Louise Heath Palin pronounces nuclear as “nucular.”
Lionel...are YOU a
Lionel...are YOU a cacoepist? Almost every American I know pronounces "coup de grace" this way: "coup de grah." If you do, consider yourself a cacoepist, because a "coup de grah" is the way you would pronounce "coup de gras," a blow with a piece of fat, like lard.
Just a pet peeve of mine. Pronounce those final consonants in French if they are followed by a vowel.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower
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By MichtouSeptember 7, 2008 - 6:34pm