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[Bradley A. Esparza]

But, don't you dis-PATCH from DIS-patch?

On 7/19/07, Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at ohio.edu> wrote:
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> The fight really isn't worth fighting, Wilson!  Do you fuss about
> UM-brella
> and DIS-patch too, btw?  Perfectly normal South Midland pronunciations.
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> At 03:11 PM 7/19/2007, you wrote:
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> >Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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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."
> >
> >-Wilson
> >
> >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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > James Harbeck.
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Bradley A. Esparza

"You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." Dorothy
Parker, when asked to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence.

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