pronounciation
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pronounciation
- Misspelling of pronunciation.
- 2023 October 14, LingoLizard[note 1], 2:20 from the start, in Most Common Sounds NOT in English[2], YouTube:
- I'm sticking with just two English varieties: General American and Received Pronounciation
- Obsolete form of pronunciation.
- 1530, Johan Palſgrave [i.e., John Palsgrave], Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse: […], Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, published 1972, unnumbered page:
- And nowe as touchying the ſeconde poynte whiche is to be bꝛefe and ſodayne without any maner of harſheneſſe in theyꝛ ꝓnoũciation / what conſonantes ſo euer they wꝛite in any woꝛde foꝛ the kepying of trewe oꝛthographie […]
Notes
[edit]- ^ LingoLizard pronounces it this way on purpose, but this is idiosyncratic.[1] Most people consider it a misspelling or mispronunciation (ironically).
References
[edit]- Jeremy Butterfield, editor (2015), Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage, fourth edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 660, column 1: “*pronounciation. An all-too-common misspelling and mispronunciation of pronunciation.”
- “pronunciation, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2023.
