Realators--meet on in FeBOOary in the Liberry

[Amanda Geist]

My least favorites (behind "nu-kyu-lar," which I HATE and lay at Carter's
door)-the ones that make me yell at TV screens and correct total strangers:

 

Real-a-tor. Even *realtors* use this one. READ THE DAMN WORD.

 

HAIR-assment, not ha-RASS-ment. Brits use this one, and increasing numbers
of Americans since it was so often mispronounced during all the Clarence
Thomas hoo-hah.

 

Mildly irritating: JOOL-uh-ree, rather than JEW-el-ree.

 

~Amanda, whose inner editor has been provoked by this thread

 



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