[Ads-l] inde-fatigue-able

[Jonathan Lighter]

It's still happening: Erin Burnett on CNN last evening.

JL

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:56 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Oct 26, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > I assume Larry means alternate pronunciation and not spelling.
>
> Oops, yup.  Well, what I meant, of course, was that I don't see
> /ɪndəfəˈtiɡəb(ə)l/ as an alternate spelling for representing the
> pronunciation.
>
> LH
>
>
> > I don't see
> > any dictionaries with alt. prons either, but check out Wiktionary, which
> > provides an audio example of the "inde-fatigue-able" pronunciation,
> despite
> > not transcribing it in IPA.
> >
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wiktionary.org_wiki_indefatigable&d=CwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=BFtPs-2oEVlR_F6r5MgASgOjUDIYubCT1YunfeDJ-pk&s=5OvuoncgA6p11fHdmUJ6mpZroZwiABxAaAq6xNqDjyw&e=
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I've definitely heard it (and winced, I admit), but I don't see it
> listed
> >> as an alternate spelling in the first few dictionaries I checked online.
> >>
> >> LH
> >>
> >>> On Oct 26, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Kellyanne Conway, the T---p's campaign manager, also says "in dee
> >> fatigue a
> >>> bull."
> >>>
> >>> JL
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
> >> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> That's how a top CNN anchor (really) pronounces "indefatigable."
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I used to use that pronunciation, myself. But, unluckily, no one was
> >> paying
> >>>> me to do it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sad on me.
> >>
> >>
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