dioceses pron. "diosees"

[Wilson Gray]

This plural may be based on the annoyingly-common singular,
"'diocis" [dai at sIs].

-Wilson

On 3/30/06, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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> On NPR 3/30/06:  In a story about the liability for reparation to victims
> of clerical abuse  in various  US dioceses, the word "dioceses" was
> repeatedly pronounced  "diosees" (as if it had been blended with "see").
> I'm not sure that diocese and see are equivalent, but I doubt  if that was
> what was intended.
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> On another note, a pitch for the NPR website had ...."to find out about the
> movies you hear on NPR"........ [wanting to get double duty out of that one
> "about."]
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