I was thinking recently it would be good to note down English solecisms as I experience 'em, then realized it's constant within my hearing every day. I don't mean to be mean -- really don't. Am not preaching at you folks in particular. But as Tucker says, thoughtless writing and speech make for sloppy thinking https://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=256305&Disp=3#C3
Sloppy English plays into Enemy hands because the Enemy works night and day to destroy normal healthy dialectics. We've talked (I've yammered) about 'abortion' vs 'feticide', Covid 'vaccines' vs. 'injections' etc -- here are a few more that've lately flown thru the air, and some blasts from the past dusted off.
1. "Electoral" gets beat up again each time new ructions occur over the College. Literally can't think of the last time I heard it said correctly -- "eLECtoral", not "elecTORal"! Everybody used to say it right but everybody ain't what it used to be. Compare pectoral, littoral, guttural. If modern dictionaries cite current idiocies as correct, Webster himself calls 'em down:
http://www.webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/electoral
http://www.webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/pectoral
http://www.webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/littoral
See? New stuff is always wrong and old stuff right! ;)
2. "Smollett" is in urgent need of CPR even though it's only current because of a vile thug: other words in its mold get similarly mangled. It's SMOLLett, the second vowel a SCHWA sound -- not a distinct short E! This is how English double T works at the end of two syllables. Ppl are confusing it with the Frenchoid one in which a final double T is followed by an E (cassette dinette pipette). Who do you know who says hamMETT for the famous mystery author's name -- or pronounces his first name dashiELL for that matter?
Cf. Blodgett, rackett, Blennerhassett. Speaking of authors, Tobias has always been pronounced right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6STK9fWo3jQ
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/rackett
English is full of French, true, but is still mostly German. ("Du Ring an meinem Finger" -- famous Schumann song.) News readers and even Tucker have clearly felt uncomfortable attempting 'Smollett' during the Jussie farce -- is it two equal syllables (a spondee), accent on on the ending (an iamb) or what? Anything but what they know it to be deep down -- fads are king. Don't sound to intelligent or they'll take you before the firing squad.
2a. Gwinnett. If you should find yourself about to pronounce the name of this Georgia county, don't be a chump like everybody else and say gwinnETT -- it's simply wrong. "But", you say, "it looks an awful lot like Anglicized French? I can just see a 'guin' element there like in 'beguine'". Nope:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_Gwinnett#Early_life_and_education
https://digging-history.com/2014/05/17/surname-saturday- gwinnett/#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%9CGwinnett%E2%80%9D%20surname%20is%20of,t he%20family%20bearing%20this%20surname.
We're ANGLOPHONES round heah -- native English speakers. Let's act like it, huh?
3. Here's why "processeez" is a totally wrong pronunciation of processes: it's an English word. For 'processeez' to be correct it would have to be Greek (possibly Latin) and end in 'ix'. The medical field is useful here
http://www.biomedicaleditor.com/spelling-tip-latin.html
3. "Queshion" for "question" e.g. 2:09 here:
https://www.brighteon.com/535c4cb7-7f5a-404a-948b-0ab60000814e
Question is a sensational, really great word deserving proper handling.
4. "Sign off on" -- we've been there
https://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=248324&Disp=1#C1
....but an extra-ripe case has just popt up -- about 12:46 in this otherwise admirable How to Resist Vaccine Mandates podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-resist-vaccine- mandates/id1568561350?i=1000535400195
No, Mr. Owen, you don't want a health professional to sign "off" anything beneficial! And please revisit the first five seconds of your fine presentation.
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Bonus link:
VERIZON MAY HAVE JUST ENROLLED YOU IN A DATA-COLLECTION SCHEME–HERE'S HOW TO GET OUT
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/81347/verizon-may-have-just- enrolled-you-in-a-datacollection-schemeheres-how-to-get.html