[Corpora-List] pronunciation

[Scott Meredith]

If you have an affinity for otiose o's, you may want to make friends
with the differently-originating, yet amusingly pervasive case of
"losing" spelled as "loosing".



-----Original Message-----
From: Nicoleta Bateman [mailto:bateman at ling.ucsd.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:28 PM
To: Josephine Lo
Cc: CORPORA at HD.UIB.NO
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] pronunciation

Hi,

It may be the case that the misspelling of "pronunciation" is a result
of 
its relationship to the word 'pronounce', which is spelled with an 'o'
and 
also sounds different.

Nicoleta 

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Josephine Lo wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I'm interested in the word "pronunciation" since recently I noticed
that it 
> is quite commonly misspelled as "pronounciation". Is this a common
mistake 
> only among non-native speakers? Is is possible that the "o" one would
make 
> its way through and eventually replace "pronunciation"?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Josephine Lo
>