Timeline for Learning correct pronunciation
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| Jan 18, 2017 at 10:19 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | @WarrenH - That's an interesting take on it – to view it as an oddity to be appreciated and embraced, rather than as a source of frustration and vexation. | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 1:01 | comment | added | Warren Ham | I can only endorse this answer. But the unpredictability of English pronunciation, although the bane of English learners (including young English schoolchildren), can be a joy once you come to grips with it! I regret the demise of etymology in the schools, as knowledge of the development of a word often gives clues as to its pronunciation. Only today I was doing a Times crossword, and met the word 'supply' in a clue. The obvious meaning was to do with providing or provisions, but the clue setter meant something less obvious -- in a supple manner! Different origins, different pronunciations! | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 22:10 | history | answered | J.R.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |