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Lara Cowell

8 Pronunciation Errors That Made the English Language What It Is Today - 2 views

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shared by Lara Cowell on 20 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Adam Pating on 20 Mar 14
     
    How can mispronunciation of a word today can become tomorrow's strongly defended norm
  • Lara Cowell on 10 Jun 14
     
    Journalist David Shariatmadari examines mispronunciations and malapropisms and how they contribute to language change.
harunafloate22

'Omni is everywhere': why do so many people struggle to say Omicron? | The Guardian - 0 views

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shared by harunafloate22 on 23 Jan 22 - No Cached
  • harunafloate22 on 23 Jan 22
     
    President Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci mispronounced the new COVID variant at a recent White House speech, calling the variant "omnicron" instead of the Greek letter "omicron." However, linguists explain that this is an expected error, as it is common for humans to take words from other languages and 'nativize' foreign sounds to make it more natural-sounding in their mother tongue. The abundance of English words with the prefix omni- seems to serve like a magnet, drawing in speakers to the similar set of letters and tempting speakers to mispronounce the omi- prefix as "omnicron."
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