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Questions citing excerpts from works of literature.

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What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them?

"Minuscule" is often mispronounced and misspelled as "miniscule". "Err" is often mispronounced as "air". "Long-lived" and "short-lived" are too often pronounced with a short I sound. It means long …