utsavviradiya
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Thanks.This is one of those cases where prescriptivists will say that the way he pronounces it is wrong and descriptivists will argue that being so common as it is, it's therefore a valid alternative.
It has nothing to with him being Canadian.
I always correct that pronunciation. For it to be correct, there would need to be an extra "i" after the "v". There isn't.
Are you an accepter of the pronunciation "nucular" for "nuclear" then? That has everything to do with how the word is spelled.
There is only one "u" so the mispronunciation is clearly an error, not just a choice of pronunciation.
And yes, "mischievious" is a misspelling.
It's not just children, though. Plenty of adults mispronounce it. I even once emailed the BBC when one of their reporters said it that way.I don't accept it, no. I've always thought that children's problems with pronouncing 'nuclear' come from the cluster in the middle of the word. I don't think it has anything to do with spelling
I thought you were arguing that it should be considered an alternative correct pronunciation. That's what I'm disagreeing with.Yes, it's a pronunciation error. (To be honest, I don't think I follow exactly what you mean.)
I accept that it's an alternative spelling but only when reporting direct speech, as I said before. For the life of me, I can't get Ngram to give me both spellings on the same graph but the standard spelling outstrips that "alternative" by a huge margin when I do them separately.I actually agree with that, but my point is that from a descriptive approach you can argue that it's a valid alternative spelling.
It's not just children, though. Plenty of adults mispronounce it.
I thought you were arguing that it should be considered an alternative correct pronunciation. That's what I'm disagreeing with.
I accept that it's an alternative spelling but only when reporting direct speech, as I said before. For the life of me, I can't get Ngram to give me both spellings on the same graph but the standard spelling outstrips that "alternative" by a huge margin when I do them separately.
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