Certiorari gibberish

[Baker, John]

As I look at my sent email, I see nothing about it that would have resulted in gibberish.  Anyway, I'll try again.  This is what I said:


Thanks to all for the posts.  Note that, contrary to Benjamin's suggestion, "certiorari" is used with some frequency in law, and particularly at the Supreme Court, so it isn't really the case that it isn't said often enough for a standard pronunciation to emerge.  

The whole discussion has made clear to me what I suspected in the past:  I'm not sure how to pronounce the word.  From now on, I'm going to use "ser-shee-or-RAHR-ee" when I absolutely have to settle on a pronunciation, but "cert" or "review" whenever possible.


John Baker



-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Barnhart
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 5:25 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Certiorari gibberish

This means nothing to me

-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Baker, John
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 4:18 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: The Proper Pronunciation of Certiorari

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