From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2014-05-18 21:06:54 +0000, Christopher J. Henrich said:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > William Vetter  wrote:   
   >   
   >> People who have not had formal education, but have learned primarily from   
   >> books, even though they may have learned more than many people who have   
   >> completed degrees, can teach themselves to pronounce unfamiliar words as   
   they   
   >> are written.   
   >>   
   >> One afternoon, I was talking to a laboratory stockman at his counter.  He   
   was   
   >> excited because he had bought a new telescope, and wanted to use the setting   
   >> circles to find the Ring Nebula and so forth, and he was telling me about   
   >> sidereal time.  He pronounced it "SIDE REAL."   
   >>   
   > It can happen to people who have had a good formal education, too[1].   
   > My father, when he was at college, used the word "misled" in a formal   
   > debate. But he pronounced it "MYE-zled."   
   >   
   > Ob-SF: Charlie Johns, the protagonist of Theodore Sturgeon's  _Venus   
   > Plus X_, was also grown up when he found out that the word was not   
   > "mizzled."   
      
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