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MrBillM
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Poignant Moments
The D.A. Gal pronounced it as spelled i.e. "Poig-Nant" not "poinyant". It is a classic example of someone using a word (for effect)
that they are not familiar with. I've heard those kind of mistakes many, many times over the years. It is usually a case of someone trying to appear
erudite.
One other flagrant example I heard years ago was a politician using the word CHAOS as spelled i.e. "CHA-OS" rather than "Kay-os".
I have a native German friend who is very well-educated and one of many complaints he has about the English language is the number of words that
cannot be sounded out according to strict rules of pronounciation. That is one of the strengths of the Spanish language. Except for a few
variations, you know how a word is sounded out.
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thebajarunner
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O.K.
I think I got it...
Something like being "slightly POIGnant"???
(the word, properly used, is a wonderful word. unfortunately, few people know the meaning and when you render it in an expressive sense you generally
get blank looks.... on the other hand, mebbe I need to start hanging around with a better class of folks...hmmmmm)
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I'll confess to one of those dumb mispronouncing flubs. "Misled" is a word that appears quite often in newspapers, which I started reading when quite
young, and although I never used it in talking, mentally it was "mizzled."
When well into my twenties I finally came to "mis-" hyphened at the end of a line of type, and a light dawned. I've always been sort of sorry about
that--mizzled sounds a lot more fitting for the act the word describes.
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bajalera
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Ooops!
Forgot to log in. That was me [or I, if you want to be picky.]
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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...I'd go for the Canadian spell check version...e.g, labour, neighbour, colour, etc. then a nice automatic punctuation checker:
Eats shoots and leaves.
Eats, shoots and leaves.
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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