The pronunciation of what? Exactly.
Gene Weingarten wrote in yesterday's Washington Post:
I am a "word person." My vocabulary is extensive, my command of grammar and syntax almost without error. I can accurately conjugate most any verb, including "to lie," which gets pretty complex in the pluperfect. I understand the difference between epistemology and hermeneutics.
And so it came as something of a surprise and shock to me the other day when I learned that, at 54, I apparently do not know how to pronounce the word "what."
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I am a "word person." My vocabulary is extensive, my command of grammar and syntax almost without error. I can accurately conjugate most any verb, including "to lie," which gets pretty complex in the pluperfect. I understand the difference between epistemology and hermeneutics.
And so it came as something of a surprise and shock to me the other day when I learned that, at 54, I apparently do not know how to pronounce the word "what."
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