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Talk:List of words of disputed pronunciation
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#Are the pronunciations in italics and brackets to the right of each word the correct pronunciations, or the mis-pronunciations?  This isn't clear from the text.  Ideally, the article would state first the `correct' pronunciation, followed by a list of mis-pronunciations with indications as to their likely regions (because a lot of the words in the list seem, to me, to be mispronounced only in certain parts of the world, rather than by all Anglophones.  In fact, at the risk o(contracted; show full)ary template had no such implications, at least the actual wording doesn't say anything about deletion. But I do realize that many pure dictionary definitions are deleted after being transwikied. How about if we just put the tag on with the constriction that whenever it is transwikied, we will not lose what's here at the WP.--[[User:Dmcdevit|Dmcdevit]] 21:51, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)- BTW, there are lots of things that are trivial, but encyclopedic, check out every single pokemon character (hundreds).


::::::Can you tell me what your criteria for distinguishing that which is trivial and encyclopedic and that which is trivial and unencyclopedic? Irrespective of this issue, I'm curious how you distinguish the two. [[User:Nohat|Nohat]] 03:54, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)⏎
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== Uranus ==

By what standard is "urinous" a "nonexistant adjective"? It occurs in several dictionaries (cf. www.dictionary.com). It is, however, less familiar than the words "your" and "anus", so I find the second part of the following entry hard to believe without a compelling cite to back it up.

"Most dictionaries list both (1) and (2). (1) is historically the older pronunciation and reflects the first-syllable stress of the original Latin word. It is the only pronunciation given by K&K, and the first pronunciation given by LPD. (2) began as a form of taboo avoidance because (1) sounds like the nonexistant adjective "urinous", but the euphemism was hardly successful as (2) can be homophonous with your anus."