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Thread #124681   Message #2758140
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
02-Nov-09 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
Subject: RE: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
Why don't people look up generally accepted pronunciations rather than posting their local or personal usages and pet hates and excoriating variations?

Crow Sister- Decade in the Oxford English Dictionary is given as de-cade (with equal stress on both syllables), not dek-ade.

Someone called 'comedic' American, but the OED has an English quote from 18-something.
A catalogue I just received from the BBC describes a DVD offering of "Sensitive Skin" as follows: "Joanna Lumley ...absolutely electrifies as a recent widow in this warm and touching comedic drama."
Moreover, 'comedical' appeared in print in 1600 (OED).
A comedist is a writer of comedies. Etc.

Decay, Merriam Webster's Dictionary, gives di-kay as the preferred U. S. pronunciation.