Re: OFF-TOPIC: Misspoken... Sort Of
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 25, 2004, 17:29 |
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On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:43:37 -0400, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Happy to say, not guilty of any of those (esp. #4 which is not only
> barbaric
> but iggerant as well coming from a graduate of Andover and Yale), with
> the
> occasional exception of No. 1 (and Long Live Hungaria, too, while we're
> at
> it).
He's not the only ignorant barbarian to pronounce it that way. Jimmy
Carter did too, and he worked on nucular subs for a chunk of his life!
As noted elsewhere, it's an accepted variant by the AHD, and that's good
enough for me.
Paul