Heard on NOVA:

[Jonathan Lighter]

I was taught specifically, in the third grade, to pronounce the first "C" .

It was a lesson too late for the learning.

JL




On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> I'll use both /k/ sounds in more formal speech, but it's not my natural
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> Benjamin Barrett
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> On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Jocelyn Limpert wrote:
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> > I totally agree with you and learned the same pronunciation as you,
> > pronouncing the initial "c" and not dropping it. These days I am forever
> > hearing TV newspeople and others dropping the initial "c" sound in both
> > Arctic and Antarctic. It bothers me, as to my ear it sounds "wrong"!
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> "It's thirty degrees, it's snowing, and we're in the Arctic [ar.tIk]."
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> >> The pronunciation that I was specifically taught to use ca. 1945 - as
> >> opposed to the "spelling-pronunciation," [arktIk] - still lives.
> >>
> >> You never know.
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