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Re: Modern manglings of the English language
Posted By: Speedball, on host 207.10.37.2
Date: Thursday, May 4, 2000, at 00:48:18
In Reply To: Re: Modern manglings of the English language posted by BurgerKing on Wednesday, May 3, 2000, at 11:00:04:

> Burger"What about 'laboratory'? When does mispronunciation become simple regional variation?"King

Well, if you pronounce it LABratory I think of a modern day science lab.

If you pronounce it labORatory I think of Dr. Frankenstine, Dr. Jeckel, and all those other mad scientist types.

I know one is proably right and the other is wrong, but thats just how my brain works.

Screwy, isn't it?

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