"Prenounce"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jan 22 04:51:45 UTC 2007
552 Google hits. The majority of cases are misspellings of "pronounce":
How do you prenounce his name?
There are a few cases in which "prenounce" appears to be a kind of
eggcorning of "pre-announce," itself, of course, a neologism:
What does it matter if Apple prenounces products not yet in the pipeline?
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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