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Thread ID: 146456 2018-08-08 23:07:00 They don't know the difference Roscoe (6288) PC World Chat
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1452423 2018-08-08 23:07:00 Listening to some people on the radio and television I hear that they don't know the difference in pronunciation between "woman" and "women."

"Woman" is pronounced as it is spelt and "women" is pronounced "wimmen" and yet some people pronounce them the same.:waughh:

It seems as though some people's education is lacking and they just don't know the difference. It's appalling. :(
Roscoe (6288)
1452424 2018-08-09 00:22:00 I'd says it's accent rather than not knowing the difference. piroska (17583)
1452425 2018-08-09 02:22:00 appalling indeed! what's the world coming to! :D bevy121 (117)
1452426 2018-08-09 04:14:00 The language is evolving .
As it has since day 1. Live with it.

The English language as we know it isnt the same as 100 or 200 years ago.
Its not as pure as some would like to think. never was .
1101 (13337)
1452427 2018-08-09 04:17:00 It isn't the same as it was way back 6 months ago.
;)
R2x1 (4628)
1452428 2018-08-09 05:36:00 The language is evolving .
As it has since day 1. Live with it.

The English language as we know it isnt the same as 100 or 200 years ago.
Its not as pure as some would like to think. never was .

It's not a matter of evolving - it's just ignorance. It's mispronunciation. That simple. If you don't pronounce the two words differently, how is one to know just what you are talking about?
Roscoe (6288)
1452429 2018-08-09 06:14:00 The English language as we know it .

Well for one thing, it originally wasn't.
It was german.

Like, we shouldn't, like, rilly, like, care, now, ay, bro? Cause, like, it's just, like, evolving and it, like doesn't like matter what we do.
piroska (17583)
1452430 2018-08-09 06:40:00 So long as we don't have to use the language used by the Greens Female Co leader I can live with most things. CliveM (6007)
1452431 2018-08-09 06:50:00 The language is evolving . As it has since day 1. Live with it. The English language as we know it isnt the same as 100 or 200 years ago. Its not as pure as some would like to think. never was . :+1: All languages evolve over time, deal with it. pcuser42 (130)
1452432 2018-08-09 09:10:00 :+1: All languages evolve over time, deal with it.

You obviously did not read what I wrote. I reiterate - woman is pronounced as it is written, women is pronounced "wimmen." Surely that's simple enough for your tiny brain?
Roscoe (6288)
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