Wednesday, September 1, 2010

There's no such word as...

supposably. The word you are looking for is supposedly.

Why does that irritate me so much?

And why can't people pronounce the first two syllables in the sentence, "I appreciate it"?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Can you answer this one for me? Is there are word funtionality? Why don't folks just say FUNCTION?

-becky

Anonymous said...

Oops. Sorry for the two typographical errors. Functionality was what I meant to type. I don't see an edit button-feel free to correct my original post. smile.

Yogini said...

Everyone I know can pronounce "I appreciate it." The "I" is a diphthong, and the third vowel sound that needs to follow it is often elided in common rapid speech. Elision is suppressing or altering a vowel sound, and is a very common element of speech in virtually every language in history. Please don't let the natural world irritate you so - you might as well be angry that grass is green.