[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Spelling and pronunciation

[Amanda Lewanski]

naama_gat at hotmail.com wrote:

> And what about foreigners who mispronounce because they only know the
> word in written form?

Foreigners, hell. I spent years pronouncing "epitome" as /EH-pi-tome/,
and never connected it with /uh-PIT-o-me/, which I *had* heard. There's
another great one I did, can't recall at the moment.

--Amanda, native speaker, sort of
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