as a non-native speaker the reason seems rather more 'obvious' to me. all
basic forms of 'pronounce' including 'pronounceable' have the 'o' in them.
so, why not 'pronounciation'?
it appears that it is the latin influence that has been retained for
'pronunciation' but not for 'pronunce'! if it was the french influence, it
might have been 'prononciation'?
> pronunciation (frequency 154) 472 000
> pronounciation (49) 32 700
> prononciation (6) 2 370
conclusion from longman/google: other non-native writers far outnumber the
french! ;-)
ruvan.
At 10:38 AM 7/24/02 +0800, 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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