Timeline for Is 'dirgible' good American English?
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| Dec 27, 2020 at 13:07 | vote | accept | EleventhDoctor | ||
| Dec 22, 2020 at 18:54 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | I often speak of dirigibles with my friends who are aerostat buffs (we do exist). | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 15:41 | comment | added | John Lawler | Notice the past tense. Speakers of Modern English have only media images of dirigibles, and the only native pronunciations of dirigible available are also only on media, in a dead dialect of English. | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 13:12 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | The R101 was a dirigible, and existed 'outside the media'. So was the Akron. | |
| Dec 21, 2020 at 23:01 | comment | added | John Lawler | I think this is why Americans prefer to say "blimp", even though they're told there's a difference. Everybody's seen blimps, but dirigibles exist only in media. | |
| Dec 21, 2020 at 19:51 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | I would (UK) say di-ridge-ible. | |
| Dec 21, 2020 at 19:13 | comment | added | Jim | I would never delete it. In fact that’s where I place the accent. | |
| Dec 21, 2020 at 18:48 | history | edited | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2020 at 18:09 | comment | added | John Lawler | I have heard people pronounce it with stress on the second syllable, like the stress pattern of deplorable; but I took it to be a spelling pronunciation. Since the word's been quiescent since before WWII, there really isn't anything around except spelling pronunciations, made living again by really being used in conversation. | |
| Dec 21, 2020 at 17:50 | comment | added | Greybeard | Yes, /'dərdʒəbəl/ is good American English pronunciation. Colour me surprised! | |
| Dec 21, 2020 at 17:23 | history | answered | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |