[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Spelling and pronunciation

[- Joy -]

I still have no idea how you guys who aren't native English speakers get
along so well.  For years I thought chic was pronounced chick. <blushes>  It
comes from reading a lot.  The people I hang out with don't actually use the
words I read, so it's hard to get a handle on how to pronounce them.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Lewanski" <editor at texas.net>
To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Spelling and pronunciation


> 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
>