Timeline for What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them?
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| Mar 18, 2011 at 2:04 | history | edited | Kosmonaut | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 6, 2011 at 18:59 | comment | added | user774 | Woah. Good one. Never heard anyone say it this way and I think it would sound forced. | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 14:38 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | @Kosmonaut: Thanks, stress is one of the harder areas of English pronunciation, which most Indian speakers never consider... Even after listening to the words, my natural tendency is to discard the stresses as unnecessary and pronounce them with equal stress so they seem to rhyme. :-) | |
| Oct 13, 2010 at 1:26 | comment | added | Marthaª | Apparently, I've been pronouncing "myopic" wrong. :) | |
| Aug 31, 2010 at 23:38 | comment | added | Neil McGuigan | I didn't know the difference for many decades. | |
| Aug 30, 2010 at 2:56 | comment | added | Kosmonaut | Myopic has stress on the second syllable, while biopic has primary stress on the first syllable and secondary stress on the final syllable. | |
| Aug 29, 2010 at 9:00 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | Er, doesn't myopic rhyme with bio-pic? (I see there are two pronunciations for "myopic", with different vowels for the 'o', but doesn't one of them rhyme with bio-pic?) | |
| Aug 27, 2010 at 3:13 | comment | added | Kosmonaut | I still don't like it! :) | |
| Aug 25, 2010 at 20:01 | comment | added | nohat | …because it is short for bio(graphical) (motion) pic(ture) | |
| Aug 19, 2010 at 22:48 | comment | added | JohnFx | I did not know that until just now. Good one. | |
| Aug 19, 2010 at 22:43 | history | answered | Kosmonaut | CC BY-SA 2.5 |