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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Epitome and Penchant for me. Mocked mercilessly for those two.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, epitome for me too. It was the epi-tome.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So apparently for the latter you can just claim to be using the american pronunciation https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/penchant

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All mispronunciations can be defended with linguistic descriptivism. It's usually a pissweak argument though!

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