Heard on The Judges: "compromise"

[Laurence Horn]

Anymore, when we notice a spelling pronunciation of this type (I
guess it's in the "MAYZ-l'd" for _misled_ category) we should be
reassured that folks are still reading...

LH

At 10:03 AM -0500 12/16/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Judge Penny [pInI], forty-four-year-old, black female speaker from Georgia:
>
>"Do you know what a marriage [m&:G] is [iIz]?
>
>Forty-four-year-old, Latino female college graduate married to a white
>aerospace engineer:
>
>"Yes. It's two people compromising "com PROMising" ["kam 'pram at sIN]."
>
>
>I've never heard this pronunciation before. Which is not to say that,
>at one time, I wouldn't have used it, myself. It's only that, as fate
>would have it, I never had occasion to speak this word during the time
>when I would have said, "com PROMising."
>
>-Wilson
>---
>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.
>-----
>-Mark Twain
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