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

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've been noticing this for months, at least.

In a similar vein, "fentanyl" is usually pronounced "fentanol" (like
"alcohol").

For daring to say "fentanyl" (rhymes with "cancer pill"), I was recently
and emphatically told by a highly educated person that the "correct
pronunciation" is "fentanol."

JL

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 7:45 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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