American exceptionalizm?

[Tom Zurinskas]

from thefreedictionary.com - It reads like it means an attitude of "American pompousness"

exceptionalism [ɪkˈsɛpʃənəlɪzm] n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an attitude to other countries, cultures, etc. based on the idea of being quite distinct from, and often superior to, them in vital ways


The phonetics shows ~ik but the voices say ~ek. I'd say in US it's ~ek. Many dictionaries have ~ik for words starting with "ex" and I don't think it's right for US dialect. Short e is what's seen and also said, making it consistent with the spelling.


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk









> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:02:00 -0500
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> Doesn't the phrase go back to Frederick Turner? GB only gives an unclear
> snippet, but I vaguely recall it.
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> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > If Commies feared it, it must be good, Also, since they were materialists,
> > it must be real.
> >
> > QED.
> >
> > Nuances ad lib.
> >
> > I can recall grad-student lefties of the '80s denouncing the "myth of
> > American exceptionalism" in the current sense of "American moral,
> > intellectual, ideological, theological, cultural, and political superiority
> > to all." (I think that's when it became popular - "Shining City on the
> > Hill," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah....)
> >
> > Historians, as I understand it, use the phrase to encapsulate the idea that
> > U.S. history (successful, long-shot revolution against the top world power,
> > democratic constitution framed by political philosophers, big
> > contradiction/hypocrisy/sin of chattel slavery, westward push, Civil War,
> > robber barons, business growth, world wars and superpower prominence)
> > really does make the U.S. different from, say, tiny Albania.
> >
> > However, the historians' concept often subsumes the public faith in the
> > excellences listed above.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
> > wrote=
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> > > On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:20 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:
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> > > > Essentially the phrase simply means "the uniqueness of America."
> > >
> > > well, yes, but ...
> > >
> > > some good discussion in the latest issue of Daedalus, "On the American
> > > Narrative", especially:
> > >
> > > New York University history Professor David Levering Lewis, in
> > > =93Exceptionalism=92s Exceptions: The Changing American Narrative,=94
> > tra=
> > ces the
> > > history of American exceptionalism =93from high-flown political science
> > > theory=85to ideological boilerplate=94
> > >
> > > and in =93The American Mythos,=94 by Jay Parini, Middlebury College
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