{"id":7187,"date":"2014-03-12T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T12:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2014-03-12T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T13:35:54","slug":"8-pronunciation-errors-that-made-the-english-language-what-it-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/8-pronunciation-errors-that-made-the-english-language-what-it-is-today\/","title":{"rendered":"8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today<\/h1>\n

Think hyperbole rhymes with Super Bowl? Don’t worry, it could be the start of something beautiful<\/h2>\n

Someone I know tells a story about a very senior academic giving a speech. Students shouldn’t worry too much, she says, if their plans “go oar-y” after graduation. Confused glances are exchanged across the hall. Slowly the penny drops: the professor has been pronouncing “awry” wrong all through her long, glittering career.<\/p>\n

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Not a nadder any more. Photograph: Natural England\/PA<\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve all been there. I still lapse into mis-CHEE-vous if I’m not concentrating. This week some PR whizzes working for a railway station with an unusual name unveiled the results of a survey into frequently garbled words. The station itself is routinely confused with an endocrine gland about the size of a carrot (you can see why they hired PRs). Researchers also found that 340 of the 1000 surveyed said ex-cetera instead of etcetera, while 260 ordered ex-pressos instead of espressos. Prescription came out as perscription or proscription 20% of the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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