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How do you pronounce superlative?

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SarkyWench · 22/11/2012 19:45

I think that ds1 has been taught this incorrectly.

  1. super-LAY-tiv (to rhyme with "super native")
    or
  2. soo-PER-li-tiv
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Maryz · 24/11/2012 21:26

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TalcAndTurnips · 24/11/2012 21:38

3b1g -

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chinley · 26/11/2012 21:14

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3b1g · 26/11/2012 21:41

Until I was about 25, I thought that banal was pronounced in a way that rhymed with anal.

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bialystockandbloom · 26/11/2012 21:45

Until I was about 18 I thought there was a word mizzled which meant being duped into thinking something erroneous.

Er, oh yes. Pretty similar to the meaning of misled then. Blush

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bialystockandbloom · 26/11/2012 21:47

Sorry austenozzy but pmsl at 'bru-sk-etta' Grin

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chinley · 26/11/2012 21:51

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lottiegarbanzo · 26/11/2012 21:54

I know someone who pronounces banal thus 3b1g!

Also others who've thought that about misled (and ORrey for awry, as above). I think mizzle is fine, misty drizzle is it not?

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3b1g · 26/11/2012 21:55

Chinley: to rhyme with Carl.

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lottiegarbanzo · 26/11/2012 21:55

Maybe it's you chinley! It's ban-Ahhl, or more like b-nAhhl.

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BOFingTheDude · 26/11/2012 22:07

I'm not sure which would be more dispiriting: banal sex or anal sex.

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chinley · 26/11/2012 22:31

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SarkyWench · 26/11/2012 22:52

Is that meth-inks?

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AViewfromtheFridge · 28/11/2012 16:33

Did anyone hear Steve Wright pronounce epitome epi-tome not once, but twice this afternoon on radio 2? Surely if you're broadcasting to the nation you should check these things!

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singleWhiteMale · 09/12/2012 23:03

There's an awful lot of on this thread..

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