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Could it be...the most pedantic book in the world?   Let's test it out...how do you pronounce "chorus?"  Then cho-rus it must be. Would you to talk like an elocution professor of the previous century? Let me know which words you require clarification on, and I will look them up. Please, let us maintain decorum.  
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bossy lady posted:how do you pronounce sword  Good question, it is pronounced sword, not sword.
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 We may extrapolate that the correct pronounciation is in fact gif not jif.
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Devils Affricate posted:Let's see what it has to say about "often"  ...it's even got a reference from the web to back it up.
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marshmallow creep posted:I have embarrassed myself with harbinger and epitome, so let's see what the authority has to say.  ...bonus points for requesting the page with the correct pronounciation of "harass."  I hope you never have to say epi-TOME ever again.
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Phyzzle posted:Hovel  ...also some old-timey pronounciations of "housewife" for good measure.
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EorayMel posted:Carbine  Watch how you say "card" around this guy.
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Sophy Wackles posted:I would like to see accost.  You picked a controversial one.
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ikanreed posted:Coitus is a funny word Sorry, but there was no listing for "coitus." Either everybody was in agreement about this word, or it was a love that dare not speak its name.
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Waltzing Along posted:How about 'schedule?' The brits don't seem to know how to say that at all.  You're right, there have been four or five competing British pronounciations of schedule for hundreds of years, apparently.  ...somewhat more straightforward.
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Waltzing Along posted:Is Leicestershire even a word? The pronunciation of that is insanity.    ...reminiscent of the card/kyard controversy
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Ralph Hurley posted:roentgen  Let me say at this point that I now have great respect for this book.
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Mar 13, 2022 23:03
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Empty Sandwich posted:lol @ "orthoëptists" 
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Non Krampus Mentis posted:“Either”. That or “potato”/“tomato”. 
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Empty Sandwich posted:really, either way is fine  lol that joke is over 100 years old!
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Big Beef City posted:Hegemony  good one
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Gooch and Brooch, respectively. no gooch, only brooch 
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Devils Affricate posted:Foyer  Wrong again, Big Beef City!
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Devils Affricate posted:fillet  serious question, what is filet vs fillet?
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Devils Affricate posted:garage  kind of cool to think of a time when the garage was a new innovation (as opposed to the carriage house)
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Flipperwaldt posted:croissant No entry, probably didn't exist in the US at that time.
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Devils Affricate posted:As far as I know, they are two interchangeable spellings of the same word ...and yet the guy gives them different pronounciations
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les enfants Terrific! posted:no poo poo? how about macabre? sorry bro
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Devils Affricate posted:Let's see what they thought about February back in the day 
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MoonshineWilly posted:Clandestine 
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William Bear posted:Imagine how puckered this guy's butthole must have been all the time! This book is a delight, though. 
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Matelasse (a type of fabric woven on a jacquard loom which, despite having spent the last two and a half months making a matelasse curtain, I still have no idea how to pronounce) Didn't think the professor would have this one, but... 
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Dong Quixote posted:Iatrogenic No entry...obviously there were no iatrogenic conditions 100 years ago.
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no_tears posted:Aluminum  so...aluminum and aluminium are two separate things?
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Bum the Sad posted:look up melee Sounds familiar... 
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downout posted:neanderthal 
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Bad Purchase posted:spaghetti 
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sigher posted:CUM no entry
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AARD VARKMAN posted:Steppe  
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Bad Purchase posted:Worcestershire   
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Colonel Cancer posted:Trireme 
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Geemer posted:Gnostic  Extra bonus: turns out that the correct pronounciation of God is Gawd, in the Long Island style.
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Kirk Vikernes posted:prolapse No entry. Not a whole lot of medical terms here.
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Geemer posted:Geez IDEARRRR 
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