I'm still annoyed at how people still pronounce realtor as “real-a-tor.” There’s no vowel between the L and the T! I also hear “anti-Semetic” all the time. You might guess that this is based on an analogy with the word emetic, because people are racist and emetic means vomit-inducing, except for the fact that 95% of you don’t even know that word, especially those of you who consider us jews* to be nauseating. Finally, says the hot new drug is “fentan-all,” when it clearly should be pronounced “fentan-ill.” Pronouncing it as “fentanol” almost makes some sense, in that the word ending is the same as in alcohol, but you really shouldn’t mix the two.
Issue: 17-1 (orig. pub. date: )
