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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) the "urinous" sound of (1), I don't have a published source for it; just a personal communication from someone of the generation during which the change took place (about 50-60 years ago). He told me that back then, the word "anus" really wasn't particularly well known among the general population, so pronunciation (2) didn't sound "dirty" until the '60s and '70s, when "anus" became better known. --[[User:Angr|Angr]] 05:58, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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== Linux ==

The reference to [[phonics]] as a rule for pronouncing "Linux" should not be ignored (and I have put it back). Phonics is the set of rules which speakers of a language use - usually subconsciously - to guess how to pronounce an unfamiliar word. The phonics rules in English are particularly unreliable but I would suggest that most people use them subconsciously all the same. Taking the examples given in the article, we know that "paper" would be pronounced differently from "papper" and "unnix" differently from "unix", even though some of these words do not exist. My instinct has always been to pronounce "Linux" 'la&#618;n&#601;ks - and I would suggest that this is not due to a subconscious attachment to the name "Linus" but more to the phonics rule which tells me that if "Linux" is pronounced 'l&#618;n.&#650;ks then it should be spelt "Linnux".