Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MULTI+2.11; site stc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!andrew From: andrew@stc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup,net.nlang Subject: Re: literacy Message-ID: <670@stc-b.stc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 09:08:14 EST Article-I.D.: stc-b.670 Posted: Mon Oct 28 09:08:14 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 00:42:17 EST References: <747@cyb-eng.UUCP> <1900005@datacube.UUCP> <2260@iddic.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@stc.UUCP (Andrew Macpherson) Organization: STC Telecoms, London N11 1HB. Lines: 33 Xref: linus net.followup:4513 net.nlang:3360 Xpath: stc stc-b stc-b stc-a In article <2260@iddic.UUCP> galenr@iddic.UUCP (Galen Redfield) writes: >In article <1900005@datacube.UUCP> stephen@datacube.UUCP writes: >> >>I agree. My particular choice is "mnemonic" misspelled as "pneumonic". Even >>worse, I hear it pronounced "noo-monic" instead of "nee-monic". > >I agree!! Boy, I sure hate it when I hear words pronounced >incorrectly on the net, too! ;-) Speaking of bad pronounciation, I find it exceedingly irritating when a news-reader says: ( mis-spelled to indicate pronounciation ) seketry as in "The Seketry of State" Febry as in "this Febry was the coldest on record" Libray (same complaint really) Another complaint is subject to regional variation, here in the south east of england ( a generalisation I KNOW that there is a lot of variation) they say: wenzda- whereas in the rest of the British isles one will hear the `d' as in wednzda- A lot of this is now vanishing (thank you BBC), but it is annoying when local peculiarities are broadcast as ``standard english''. -- Regards, Andrew Macpherson.{aivru,creed,datlog,iclbra,iclkid,idec,inset,root44,stl,ukc}!stc!andrew