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Can you say shibboleth (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This one is particularly annoying because of Hyperbolic, which is pronounced Hy-per-bol-ic. Which just makes Hy-per-bole seem more valid...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

There are a lot of those prefixes that shift stress and/or pronunciation when going from nouns to adjectives or verbs, like supermarket vs superfluous. It's just especially annoying when they use spelling uncommon to other English words, such as Quixote vs quixotic (the x is silent in the first and voiced in the 2nd).