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I have training in choral singing, so not surprisingly, most of my grammatical pet peaves stem from my experience there...
Lute: It is pronounced "L'yute", not LOOT!!!
Our: Like hour, it has two syllibals!! Not ARE!!
Anything two words where the first ends in "t" and the second word is "you". This is usually butchered, as in "I wantchu" or "I see thatchu". ARRRGH!
*edit: oops, thought of another,
From the two books of the same titles:
There is no "cow" in Moscow (long O sound at the end) and There is no zoo in Zoology (the zoo part is more like "oh" when in the longer word)
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Last edited by Lebell; 02-09-2004 at 01:23 AM..
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