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by bsder
147 days ago
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> Not sure if it's an American pronunciation thing It's a bad American pronunciation thing like "Febuwary" and "nuculer". If you pronounce the syllables correctly, "an-ec-dote", "Feb-ru-ar-y", "nu-cle-ar" the spellings follow. English has it's fair share of spelling stupidities, but if people don't even pronounce the words correctly there is no hope. |
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The pronunciation of the first r with a y sound has always been one of two possible standards, in fact "February" is a re-Latinizing spelling but English doesn’t like the br-r sound so it naturally dissimilates to by-r.