rhymes with urinal

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> CNN's Karl Penhaul is covering the rescue of the miners in Chile. He "holds
> a bachelor's degree with honors from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh,
> Scotland and a master's degree in Latin American Politics from The London
> School of Economics."
>
> But that didn't stop him from saying that the miners will be checked, among
> other things, for
> / IntEst 'ai n at l / ailments.
>
> Yes, that's  intest-EYE-nal. The OED does not list it as a possibility.
>

The first time that I had occasion to speak the word _clandestine_
anywhere except in my own head, I said "CLAN-d at -Stine." Naturally, I
was automatically corrected by the teacher. Later, I discovered that,
had my teacher had BrE as his native dialect, he very likely wouldn't
have noticed any error.

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-Wilson
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