More on "calvary"

[Wilson Gray]

I'm familiar with both "larnyx" and "georgaphy," but not with
"intregal," though I am familiar with Rumanian _intreg(a)_ "whole,"
abstracting away from the necessary diacritics.

-Wilson

On 4/25/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> One of my teachers in grade school consistently pronounced "geography" as [jiarg at fI]. That [g]/[r] metathesis somewhat resembles the case of "integral"/"intregal"--with the (also) commonly heard "intergal" being intermediate?
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> >>Integral/intregal comes to mind as one among a number of common mistakes of this class; that is, where there is no second real word, but the order of consonants presents a trap for the unwary. . . .
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> >I confess I've always had problems with that one.  It's not so much a mistake, since I always correct myself ("intregal...integral"), but for some reason I can't ever seem to get my tongue around "integral" on the first try.
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