http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=187 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=187&cpage=1#comment-86467 Stacy A Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:36:51 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=187#comment-86467 I am a little late to this post, but I just read the list of most mispronounced words, and I feel a need to make a point (to people who know me, this is not surprising): While I agree with quite a few of the entries, it seems to me like many of them are simply regional pronunciations that differ from what's "officially accepted". Now, I LOVE words, I love using them correctly, knowing how to properly pronounce them, etc. But I also love regional dialects, the way they reflect the people who live there, where they came from, a sense of their history. It makes me sad to see that we're turning into a nation where it's harder and harder to tell from where a person comes by listening to them. Sadder still is that we judge people to be less educated if they say "differnt" instead of "different" just because they grew up in Texas and that's the way they say things down there. I definitely believe we should have conformity in writing/spelling, and I think we need to speak enough alike that we can understand each other; but there's no reason we should all sound like we come from the CNN news anchor's desk. I prefer being just a little bit differnt from the norm. I am a little late to this post, but I just read the list of most mispronounced words, and I feel a need to make a point (to people who know me, this is not surprising): While I agree with quite a few of the entries, it seems to me like many of them are simply regional pronunciations that differ from what’s “officially accepted”. Now, I LOVE words, I love using them correctly, knowing how to properly pronounce them, etc. But I also love regional dialects, the way they reflect the people who live there, where they came from, a sense of their history. It makes me sad to see that we’re turning into a nation where it’s harder and harder to tell from where a person comes by listening to them. Sadder still is that we judge people to be less educated if they say “differnt” instead of “different” just because they grew up in Texas and that’s the way they say things down there. I definitely believe we should have conformity in writing/spelling, and I think we need to speak enough alike that we can understand each other; but there’s no reason we should all sound like we come from the CNN news anchor’s desk. I prefer being just a little bit differnt from the norm.

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