The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #70259   Message #1200557
Posted By: emjay
04-Jun-04 - 04:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Affect and effect.
Subject: RE: BS: Affect and effect.
Yes, I do pronouce them the way they are spelled. The fourth edition of Webster's New World Dictionary gives Febrooary as the preferred, but they do give Wenzday not Wedn-sday. I'll have to accept defeat on that one, but I will continue to pronounce the d before the n. It sounds better to me.
How about culinary? I know it should not be pronounced with a short u as in cull-inary.