I'd ring that
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it's wild to think that we embed miniature copies of Greek and Latin into English, for doing science and medicine. not just words, I mean a functional grammar fully stocked with roots and morphemes. we just make words like "holographic," "isotope" and "synesthesia" (Greek), "accelerometer", "prefabricated" and "refrigerator" (Latin), or hybrids ("television", "microscope.")
English is such a wonderful mutt of a language.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Fuck hybrids that mix greek and latin....
The worst offender: Decathlon, Greek sports in a Greek event (Olympics) and they use DECA!
/sGreetings from a Norwegian. (Some words of Norse origin, mostly those of pre Norman origin)
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Social studies teacher in high school dinged me 5 points for pronouncing epitome as epi-tome. Ended up with 95/100 but it's the principle of the matter.
I don't agree with that decision. Unless you had been specifically taught the proper pronunciation previously and still mispronounced it, the teacher should have just corrected you and moved on.
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Chitin.
(kai-tin)
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I've looked it up a bunch of times and I still don't know if potable is "POTE-ah-bull" or "POT-ah-bull"
Potent Potables -- from (SNL's) Celebrity Jeopardy.
