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Carl-E:
That's all I hear anymore, too.  But I grew up with DEB-acle.  I was about 16 the first time I heard the second syllable accented, and it took me a few to realize what the person had said... and that's the only way I've heard it since. 

The suddenness of the change has always bothered me.  It was like everyone around me - parents, teachers, newscasters - up and decided they'd been doing it wrong all along. 

Sorry for the thread derailment.  I'll go back to yelling at kids to get off my lawn snow now.

maddness:
It doesn't bother me much when people pronounce things differently. I have a quirk where I will repeat a word that I think sounds interesting, changing the accents and cadence until it ceases to be anything but a collection of sounds. I find language interesting, the wherefore and why of how certain sounds came to mean certain things. Fascinating to me..

tomart:

--- Quote from: maddness on 12 Jan 2011, 12:45 ---It doesn't bother me much when people pronounce things differently. I have a quirk where I will repeat a word that I think sounds interesting, changing the accents and cadence until it ceases to be anything but a collection of sounds. I find language interesting, the wherefore and why of how certain sounds came to mean certain things. Fascinating to me..
--- End quote ---

Me too!  It's how i process language and pronunciation, glad to hear i'm not the only one.  :)

As for thread topic, it doesn't seem to have happened;  but then again Jeph might do it, now that we're not expecting it. :)

Carl-E:
Apparently, Pintsize will need his cump repaired.  Marten may take him to Marigold for help with that...

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