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Thread #118743   Message #2570632
Posted By: Rowan
19-Feb-09 - 01:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: World's best grammatical howlers
Subject: RE: BS: World's best grammatical howlers
In Oz' New England I hear "Drawer" as "draw" more or less routinely although I also hear it as "draw'r". And it's very common (in both senses?) here for cervical and dissect to be pronounced with the long "i". On the other hand (the one with 5 digits) I heard "dipole" pronounced the other day as "dip ole"; that pricked the old ears up!

And then there's the medicos who pronounce every version of the Greek for "head" (cephalic, encephalogram etc) with the "s" replacing the hard "c" (as in kephos); they even do it to Celtic, occasionally. You'd reckon they'd know better.

Cheers, Rowan