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To: Cronos

Leave it to the inventors of English to say “superficially” (6 syllables) instead of the American English version, “not really” (3 syllables).

/sarc


12 posted on 09/28/2022 11:30:08 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: Albion Wilde

Unfortunately, these days the ‘inventors of English’ usually pronounce it with only 4.


13 posted on 09/28/2022 12:00:10 PM PDT by Winniesboy
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