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

[Ben Zimmer]

Also noted recently by Arnold Zwicky.

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2022/11/24/anti-semetic/

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 7:28 PM Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

> 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].
>
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