Killing The Gays

[Vincent Vega]

Remember, though, language is not something set in stone: it's completely fluid. Plus the fact that language doesn't actually exist, at least in the same way that the natural sciences exist. It's simply an loose collection of agreed upon phonemes to which we assign both concrete and intangible concepts. This is why there are various pronunciations of words depending upon dialect and culture (mischievous/mischievious, aluminum/aluminium, mum/mom, and so forth).
If a pronunciation is accepted, even by only just a small minority of people, it could be argued that it is a valid pronunciation.

Edited December 17, 2009 by USAirwaysIHS

[Fidei Defensor]

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Remember, though, language is not something set in stone: it's completely fluid. Plus the fact that language doesn't actually exist, at least in the same way that the natural sciences exist. It's simply an loose collection of agreed upon phonemes to which we assign both concrete and intangible concepts. This is why there are various pronunciations of words depending upon dialect and culture (mischievous/mischievious, aluminum/aluminium, mum/mom, and so forth).
If a pronunciation is accepted, even by only just a small minority of people, it could be argued that it is a valid pronunciation.

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Found a good website: http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html

[quote]No: nucular | Yes: nuclear
The British and Australians find the American repetition of the [u] between the [k] and [l] quaintly amusing. Good reason to get it right.[/quote]

Edited December 17, 2009 by fidei defensor

[Vincent Vega]

That doesn't really have any bearing on what I said.
Whether or not one thinks he's the queen of English doesn't make him so. What I was trying to get across was that because language is not static, I'm not sure people have the authority to declare something a mispronunciation, if it's taken hold in a significant population of speakers.
If language never changed, we'd be typing in the manner of Chaucer. Or, more realistically, in the manner of Moses.

Edited December 17, 2009 by USAirwaysIHS

[Winchester]

I'm pretty sure the English matter was settled decisively a couple centuries ago.

And the Australians are criminals.

[Vincent Vega]

(Footnote: this is coming from someone whose parents are both in nuclear medicine, and as such was disavowed of the heresy of "nu-kyu-lurr" long ago.)