Steven Poole: Do you say 'expresso' or 'nucular'? Have you ever been confident about how you say bruschetta? Don't worry about it - arguments over pronunciation are mostly proxies for snobbery and class (Guardian.com)
Steven Poole: Do you say 'expresso' or 'nucular'? Have you ever been confident about how you say bruschetta? Don't worry about it - arguments over pronunciation are mostly proxies for snobbery and class (Guardian.com)
To this day whenever I'm addressed by someone with crisp received pronunciation I still feel the instinctive need to tug my forelock and sink into a deep curtsy (opinion column)