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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (98)1/2/1998 2:20:00 PM
From: Janice Shell  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4710
 
Jack--

HARass is the British pronunciation, but of course that's no guarantee that it's the older one--we have so many odd archaic survivals in American English, many of them regional. Not so long ago I actually heard someone (younger than I) say: "I suspicioned he had a problem". I'd always imagined this was a usage that--if not entirely made up--hadn't actually been uttered in a century at least.

Janice



To: Jack Clarke who wrote (98)1/2/1998 2:22:00 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4710
 
What dictionary are you using? Both the 1969 and the new Third Edition of the American Heritage give HARass as the preferred, which is the way I had always heard it. Interesting!
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