A recent one for me was the word "row" as a synonym for quarrel. I'm American and I've seen it in writing a lot, but not heard it very many times because apparently it's a British word.
English is a proper noun and should always begin with a capital letter. I'm is a contraction of 'I am' and requires an apostrophe. The use of 'I' in 'I'm' or 'I am' or on its own is a singular first person pronoun and should always be a capital letter. There's is a contraction of 'there is' and requires an apostrophe. 'At least' is two words. Mispronounce only has a single 's'. So yes, I do not doubt your original statement.
i know my grammar and stuff, if im being tested and graded on it, ill take the time to do it correctly, otherwise, i dont really care. so if you wanna go theyre, ill go thier
Tbf I've noticed a lot of younger people don't pronounce words how I and people even older than me do. I think this just reflects that their vocabularies contain a lot more words that they have seen in text but never heard spoken. For example, the t of 'debut' is being unsilenced (though that tends to eventually happen to most French loan words in English anyway), and I'm now often hearing the a in 'scarce' rhyming with 'scar' instead of 'scare'.
English really *could* use more consistency -- words' pronunciation drifting to match the spelling more closely is a very natural phenomenon and has always been happening in every language. I for one welcome those changes. ... using a "of + " in place of a "have + " on the other hand should be punished with 5 years of forced labour in the mines. Just my personal, although undeniably correct, opinion.
The impact of only socially interacting online over text and never meeting in person to speak to one another. As well as the slang and lingo used by them today as well. Most of them can’t go one sentence without throwing one in there somewhere. Some only speak in phrases that wouldn’t be considered English, the phrases contain English words but the meaning and structure of the phrase has lost all of its original definition. Watching streamers as a main source of entertainment also plays a big role in this. When I was a kid, I learned many words and the pronunciations from movies, tv series, books, etc. Not many people seek those out for entertainment anymore (unfortunately).
i learned the difference one day then had a language arts teacher not correct it when an audio book used it incorrectly and was just confusion. to be honest until just now i still wasnt sure because i never googled how it sounded.
You know that a language has messed-up pronunciation if native speakers suddenly find out that they have been mispronouncing a word for 20 or more years 😅 (and to be fair, as a non-native English speaker I would have pronounced it exactly the same) P.S.: Happy Birthday Gura!
Really cant fault her for this since it kinda makes sense with the normal rules english. But bcos english is a jumbled mishmash of multiple languages we get this kinda pronunciation every once in awhile...
epitome and finite are the dynamic duo of "WTF IT'S PRONOUNCED LIKE THAT!?" for native english speakers. source: i am one and i still refuse to pronounce finite "correctly" because it sounds gross
The way she pronounces it is one of the accepted pronunciations though. Like how ok one is a verb and the other is the adjective version of the word but "cursed" is pronounced two ways; with one syllable, or with two like cur-sed.
I had the same "word I've only read" moment with "misled" which I pronounced "MAIZ-ld". I assumed it was the past tense of "misle", which I then worked out would mean "deceive". Turns out I was misled.
