unbenounced

[sagehen]

larry writes:
>I would speculate that the first step here would be to have been
>exposed to a pronunciation of _unbeknownst_ not listed in the
>dictionaries I've checked but that I suspect exists fairly widely,
>one with the stressed vowel pronounced with the /au/ diphthong (as in
>"now") rather than long /o:/ (as in "know").  This would render the
>adjective homonymous with (and thus derivable from) one built from
>the root of "announced", "denounced", "renounced", etc., as opposed
>to its actual relation to the archaic "unbeknown".
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Possibly mixed with renown, also?
AM