RHEtoric RHEtoric, RHEtoric

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Not rheTORic. Ffs

“It's leviOsa, not levioSA!”

@Fatbutt 😂

Roman Abramovich not Roman AbraMOvich

But it's rheTORical. So it's fairly to easy to understand why some people would say rheTORic. Not that I've heard anybody say either for many years. And I've rarely heard anybody use the word rhetoric correctly, anyway.

Roman Abramovich not Roman AbraMOvich

Actually, the correct Russian pronunciation is AbraMOvich

But it's rheTORical. So it's fairly to easy to understand why some people would say rheTORic

That's what I came on to say!

The one that grates on me is 'adverTISEment'

Yes, yes, I know the way the verb is said is what's misleading people, but it still grates. I've even heard it on the BBC.

contTROversy vs CONtroversy

It's cerVIcal not CERvical

I've even heard it on the BBC.

I've said this on every web forum I've ever visited, but I'm going to say it again. The thing about BBC presenters, newsreaders, etc., that absolutely grinds my gears is their constant use of "temporally" in place of "temporarily". They mean completely different things.

It's cerVIcal not CERvical

I don't know any source that says one of those is more correct than the other.

Oh, and students' unions are winding me up at the moment with all their stuff about "decolonizing" the curriculum. The only colonizing of any curriculum is being done by textbook publishers. They mean "decolonializing" but don't seem to be able to cope with the additional syllables.

I've never heard anyone say cerVIcal and I worked in a gynae clinic!

I have heard cerVIcal before - a nurse at my old doctors.

Had the controversy discussion with my year ten class today weirdly!

It's pedANT, not PEDant.... Only joking, this kind of thing irks me too!!!

I mostly hear cerVIcal when we're discussing the cervical spine, and CERvical when we're discussing the neck of the womb . . . possibly because we refer to the second one as the CERvix, but never ever use that to describe the neck between your head and your shoulders.

Oh, and students' unions are winding me up at the moment with all their stuff about "decolonizing" the curriculum. The only colonizing of any curriculum is being done by textbook publishers. They mean "decolonializing" but don't seem to be able to cope with the additional syllables.

The term used in academia is decolonisation/ decolonization and not decolonialisation (because there is no verb to colonialise - imperial powers colonised other nations)

See for example this module at the School of African and Oriental Studies : www.soas.ac.uk/courseunits/153402002.html or this book "Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Studies in African Literature)" by Ngugi wa Thiong’o

I've heard CERvical and cerVICal, and have no idea which is right. I may decide to go by @ClockworkNightingale's differentiation.

I also wonder when reSEARCH became REEEEEEEsearch.

My dad and his best mate had a long-running discussion about conTROversy and CONtroversy. It was always the first, until I was about 20, when I started hearing the second.

@Fatbutt

As a student midwife I always hear cerVICal

Also umbiLICus

It's HAVE not OF . . . . .

I can't bear the way the new readers now talk about the 'pleece' rather than the 'police'

ScHedule/SChedule

My DP says inVENtory instead of INventory and it drives me potty

I’m saying all of these wrong, according to this thread.

@CaptainCabinets, you've reminded me that we (as young children) thought it would hilarious to call a child LaVOTary!

But @Monroe umbiLICus??? umbiLICus?? Aaaaargh!!!!!!