[Ads-l] Pronunciation of "(anti)semitic"

Charles C Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Sat Dec 3 00:28:34 UTC 2022


More often than not, it seems (most recently tonight by Johathan Karl on ABC World News), the pronunciation of the word "antisemitic" has been manifesting the penultimate vowel as [E] rather than the historical and orthographic [I].

--Charlie

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