Don't ever correct anyone who
mispronounces any word in English. It's deemed rude to do so.
However, the teacher in me has done so and I've lost a few friends.
I've now become wiser. I won't say anything should I come across anyone who rattles away with a persistence - persisting out of habit, obstinacy or ignorance - in an erroneous use of English. I won't correct anyone of their mumpsimus.
I remember writing articles on English for a newspaper. Whatever I had written had been sourced from books authored by professors of Oxford, Cambridge or London University.
Someone in my country wrote in to condemn me. His letter was full of sarcasm but I could see that he was quite ignorant of the basic elements of spoken English. I did not bother to reply to his letter as I knew he had been taught to speak like a book and so was ignorant of the rudimentary elements of spoken English.
( Google-search : "Don't Be Afraid to Elide - luketeoh" or "Don't Pronounce Everything - luketeoh")
ltbs
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory,
or even how much you know.
It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
However, the teacher in me has done so and I've lost a few friends.
I've now become wiser. I won't say anything should I come across anyone who rattles away with a persistence - persisting out of habit, obstinacy or ignorance - in an erroneous use of English. I won't correct anyone of their mumpsimus.
I remember writing articles on English for a newspaper. Whatever I had written had been sourced from books authored by professors of Oxford, Cambridge or London University.
Someone in my country wrote in to condemn me. His letter was full of sarcasm but I could see that he was quite ignorant of the basic elements of spoken English. I did not bother to reply to his letter as I knew he had been taught to speak like a book and so was ignorant of the rudimentary elements of spoken English.
( Google-search : "Don't Be Afraid to Elide - luketeoh" or "Don't Pronounce Everything - luketeoh")
ltbs
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory,
or even how much you know.
It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
