![]() ![]() and that we all learn to speak before we learn to write. We always need to remind ourselves that speech came first. that speech is a poor relation of writing. This is another example of the widespread belief. "Most listeners give just one reason for their complaint: a letter is there in the spelling, and so it should be pronounced. It's very difficult in fact to say some of these words in their 'full' form-try pronouncing the second t in patients, for example. They include such forms as Feb'ry for February, lib'ry for library, Antar'tic for Antarctic, as'matic for asthmatic, twel'ths for twelfths, patien's for patients, reco'nize for recognize, and so on. ![]() ![]() In almost every case the words called sloppy are in fact perfectly normal pronunciations in everyday speech, and everyone uses them. And sloppy speech is the charge most often cited. "he most common of all complaints to the BBC concerns the topic of pronunciation. ![]()
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