If you have an affinity for otiose o's, you may want to make friends
with the differently-originating, yet amusingly pervasive case of
"losing" spelled as "loosing".
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicoleta Bateman [mailto:bateman@ling.ucsd.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:28 PM
To: Josephine Lo
Cc: CORPORA@HD.UIB.NO
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] pronunciation
Hi,
It may be the case that the misspelling of "pronunciation" is a result
of
its relationship to the word 'pronounce', which is spelled with an 'o'
and
also sounds different.
Nicoleta
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Josephine Lo wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm interested in the word "pronunciation" since recently I noticed
that it
> is quite commonly misspelled as "pronounciation". Is this a common
mistake
> only among non-native speakers? Is is possible that the "o" one would
make
> its way through and eventually replace "pronunciation"?
>
> Thank you
>
> Josephine Lo
>
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