[Corpora-List] pronunciation

[Sampo Nevalainen]

At 09:49 24.7.2002 +0100, Crowdy, Steve wrote:
>This word has many mispelling variants. The Longman Learners Corpus
>(around 11 million words) lists the following spellings of "pronunciation":

Here are the frequncies of these five variants given by Google (Language
English, all countries included):
                                         google
>pronunciation (frequency 154)           472 000
>pronounciation (49)                     32 700
>prononciation (6)                       2 370
>pronunication (6)                       1 140
>pronuciation (4)                        1 670

The Longman Corpus seems to correspond pretty well with a larger sample of
texts (written by a very heterogeneous group of people), although the
relative frequencies of these variants are different.  Is it just
mispelling, or could "prononciation" be partly due to French influence?
Without doubt, this word is difficult to spell, let alone its
pronounciation :-)

Cheers,
sampo