4 ms·
> The difference is that I think that most people agree that 'Febyooary' and 'Wennsday' are incorrect pronunciations Those are the most common pronunciations I
by khedoros1 9y ago
> The difference is that I think that most people agree that 'Febyooary' and 'Wennsday' are incorrect pronunciations
Those are the most common pronunciations I hear, living in California. The U.S. and U.K. recordings on Wiktionary also omit the first "r" in February, and the "d" in Wednesday (although the UK recording seems like it has an elongated sound that implies the missing "d").
- JadeNB 9y ago> Those are the most common pronunciations I hear, living in California. They are also the most common in my experience, but I thought, and thought others thought, that they were nonetheless commonly judged wrong. (It is fair to argue what 'wrong' could possibly mean of pronunciation other than "what most people say", though.)
- khedoros1 9y agoIf a native speaker makes an utterance that they don't consider to have a mistake, and that other speakers of the dialect would accept as correct, then I think it's hard to say that it's wrong, even if it deviates from another dialect (and even if the dialect it deviates from is the one considered the "standard" form of the language). Even taking it in a more linguistic prescriptivist direction though, those words did often have more than one accepted pronunciation listed in various dictionaries.