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Re: Pronunciate. *ZAP*

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Friday, March 12, 1999, 15:45
Brian Betty wrote:

> not to criticise a non-native speaker,
Corrections like this are typically better taken to private mail.
> (much like the common error ironical - which I have seen in the newspaper! > is a most egregious error for ironic, adv. ironically. It's a parsing error).
"Ironical" is a perfectly standard variant of "ironic".
> What does este'tica mean? The opposite of aesthetic?
What's going on here is that there is a single E. word with two spellings, "aesthetic" and "esthetic". The first is chiefly U.K, the second chiefly American (but probably catching on elsewhere). The "a-" is not a negative prefix, but simply reflects the Greco-Latin "ae" diphthong, not now pronounced as such in either English or the Romance languages. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)