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Really? That's a rather phonetically spelt word, aside from the "s" sound at the end.
by DannoHung 14y ago
Really? That's a rather phonetically spelt word, aside from the "s" sound at the end.
- debacle 14y agoBut why change the spelling? Maintainance looks much more logically correct.
- StavrosK 14y agoBecause that's pronounced "maintain-ance". Stress on the "ain".
- nirvdrum 14y agoThat sounds like a regional dialect. I've never heard it pronounced that way in the northeast US at the very least.
- StavrosK 14y agoI don't think anyone pronounces it that way, because what everyone is saying is the word that is spelt "maintenance". If you were to actually pronounce the word that is spelt "maintainance", that is how it would be pronounced, with the stress on the "ain".