twesterm said:
Trentonater said:
nordlead said:
Trentonater said:
like off-ten instead of just often
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please try again... both your spelling (since you incuded the t in both) and your mostly invalid points.
Often was pronounced with a t-sound until the 17th century, when a pronunciation without the /t/ came to predominate in the speech of the educated, in both North America and Great Britain, and the earlier pronunciation fell into disfavor. Common use of a spelling pronunciation has since restored the /t/ for many speakers, and today [aw-fuhn] and [awf-tuhn] [or [of-uhn] and [of-tuhn]] exist side by side. Although it is still sometimes criticized, often with a /t/ is now so widely heard from educated speakers that it has become fully standard once again.
also see any decent dictionary that keeps both pronunciations. this is much like herb, which can be pronounced urb or hurb. Both are completely acceptable.
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i prefer to use the spelling or pronunciation that sounds better to me such as squid not squids and fish not fishes. i was just say most americans prefer [of-tuhn] unlike me. i wasn't saying it was incorrect. P.S. what is a game DB admin
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It's funny that you are making a thread about semantics and then you make a post like that.
I should be capitalized
There needs to be a comma after me
You make a thread saying what people prefer to call something is a huge mistake yet that's what you like to do
i was just say most is simply beyond wrong.
Americans should be capitalized
You need a ? at the end of the last sentence.
And that was only a quick glance.
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I don't punctuate as i have said in another thread. this is the internet not a Harvard entrance exam. this thread was about bison vs buffalo you made it into a semantics thread. what is a games DB admin
