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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edwarda who wrote (1791)	1/24/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

Looking at that list of errors in English reminded me of two that one hears all the time: jew la ry for jewelry and re la tor for realtor The reason these are so surprising to me is that people whose professions are associated with the words don't know how to pronounce them. And they must write or type them all the time, so it can't be that they are confused about the spelling of their terms of art. I can't carry a tune. Maybe they would have the same reaction to my execrable singing that I do to their gratuitous pronunciation choices. Here's another entry for the subtopic "What The Hell Happened to the T?": Almost everyone participating in the impeachment trial is pronouncing the word 'facts' as though it were the word 'fax.' Cheryl Mills must have done it more than a dozen times, speaking very slowly and deliberately-- "The... fax... of... the... case..."