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When I first came to City-Data, I was mystified that people would confuse "since" and "sense". They aren't homonyms...but then I realized that to some people, they ARE.
They are the people who pronounced "pin" and "pen" the same way. Which drives me NUTS, but I've learned to live with it because I'm not going to change it.
I know it is weird and hard, but there are three different words, spelled differently, but pronounced similarly. Recently I’ve been seeing palette spelled pallet. I know I have seen palate spelled pallet as well.
When I hung out in weight loss forums, I used to see loose used for lose all the time.
When I first came to City-Data, I was mystified that people would confuse "since" and "sense". They aren't homonyms...but then I realized that to some people, they ARE.
They are the people who pronounced "pin" and "pen" the same way. Which drives me NUTS, but I've learned to live with it because I'm not going to change it.
It isn't as common these days, but the solution to "pen" and "pin" in the south was to call a pen an ink pin (which is really what a pen was in the old days - a flattened split pin with a blunted tip that was dipped in ink). A closely related linguistic shift was that "pie" was pronounced somewhat like "paa." I can't quite figure out the exact way to show the pronunciation, because there were subtle local twists where the timing and volume were important, like "PAA-eh" and "PehAAWW."
It isn't as common these days, but the solution to "pen" and "pin" in the south was to call a pen an ink pin (which is really what a pen was in the old days - a flattened split pin with a blunted tip that was dipped in ink). A closely related linguistic shift was that "pie" was pronounced somewhat like "paa." I can't quite figure out the exact way to show the pronunciation, because there were subtle local twists where the timing and volume were important, like "PAA-eh" and "PehAAWW."
I worked with people who came from the south or whose parents had come from the south who said "Ink pen". As a matter of fact, the first time I heard it was from one such woman at work who asked if I had a pin, and I said, "Like a safety pin?" She said, "No, an ink pin." That was probably thirty-five years ago, though.
I can hear it in newscasters who haven't quite conquered their old accents: "More on this later on the tin o'clock news."
It did explain the "since/sense" mixup, since a southerner would say both words the same way.
At least with my Jersey accent, I can spell tawk and cawfee.
My boyfriend laughs at me and tries to tell me that there is an "L" in a'ready. In turn, I tell him that those big birds gliding up in the sky looking for prey are not called "hocks".
I know it is weird and hard, but there are three different words, spelled differently, but pronounced similarly. Recently I’ve been seeing palette spelled pallet. I know I have seen palate spelled pallet as well.
When I hung out in weight loss forums, I used to see loose used for lose all the time.
Stuff like this bugs me.
The Loose/lose thing is soooo common. Drives me bonkers.
But loose and lose are not homonyms - they're pronounced differently.
I was annoyed that a company I owned stock in that was trying to establish itself claimed on their website that they "poured over thousands of recordings to establish playlists." I was annoyed enough to send them an email pointing it out and got back not one, but two, emails telling me I was wrong. About three months later the error was corrected. No one contacted me - poor showing.
I did not mean to say that lose/loose were homonyms, but that their misuse bugs me the way the misuse of palate/pallet/palette bugs me.
Pour/pore confusion in official promo material! This is not a good look for a company.
But, English is a mess in many ways. Is it possible to have too many words?
When I first came to City-Data, I was mystified that people would confuse "since" and "sense". They aren't homonyms...but then I realized that to some people, they ARE.
They are the people who pronounced "pin" and "pen" the same way. Which drives me NUTS, but I've learned to live with it because I'm not going to change it.
Those guys! The "lack' and "like" people!
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