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[Beverly Flanigan]

The fight really isn't worth fighting, Wilson!  Do you fuss about UM-brella
and DIS-patch too, btw?  Perfectly normal South Midland pronunciations.

At 03:11 PM 7/19/2007, you wrote:
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>"FOR-midable" is currently being used in the voice-over for an ad that
>occasionally runs on local TV. Otherwise, it's been dekkids, ca. the
>Vietnam era, since I've heard the word used. As for "exquisite," I
>hear it all the time on TV, on the radio, and in the wild, and it's
>always "ex-QUIsite." I fight the good fight and continue to use
>"EX-quisite," but I'm pretty much alone in that. Even my wife uses
>"ex-QUIsite."
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>-Wilson
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>On 7/18/07, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> > >I say, "Well, you never know." In the '50's, IIRC, "FOR-midable"
> > >became "for-MIDable." Now, the word seems to have returned to
> > >"FOR-midable." OTOH, the shift of "EX-quisite" to "ex-QUIsite," which
> > >may have occurred around the same time - memory fails - appears to be
> > ><sob!> permanent.
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> > Funny. I use "forMIDable" and am used to hearing that; I only expect
> > "FORmidable" from Brits. OTOH, I'm quite used to "EXquisite"; I use
> > it myself (but not invariably -- however, I don't have a clear
> > criterion to trot out governing my choice; I suspect it's related to
> > which pronunciation I've most recently heard, and perhaps which
> > general tone or register I'm using) and I think I may hear it more
> > often than "exQUISite," though I can't say so with certainty, since I
> > don't hear either all that often.
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> > James Harbeck.
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