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| Marc... |
 Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 7:46 am |
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Since when is "divisive" pronounced "divissive"? The OED doesn't list
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| Peter T. Daniels... |
| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 9:42 am |
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On May 7, 1:46 pm, Marc <marc.ad... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: Since when is "divisive" pronounced "divissive"? The OED doesn't list
this pronunciation.
Free variation, like "economics." |
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| Marc... |
| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 11:25 am |
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On May 7, 2:42 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma... at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote:
Quote: Free variation, like "economics."
I'd never heard it before, but now it's the only way the combovers and
boobjobs on the teeveenewz say it.
Marc |
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| António Marques... |
| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 1:29 pm |
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Marc wrote:
Quote: Since when is "divisive" pronounced "divissive"? The OED doesn't list
this pronunciation.
I've never heard it otherwise.
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António Marques
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 1:33 pm |
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On May 7, 5:25 pm, Marc <marc.ad... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: On May 7, 2:42 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma... at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote:
Free variation, like "economics."
I'd never heard it before, but now it's the only way the combovers and
boobjobs on the teeveenewz say it.
Marc
I always thought that "divisive" rhyming with "divide" is typical
American overenunciation (a la "ge-nu-wine") but in this case while
Americans use both versions, the Brits apparently use only the
unsubtle version. "Divisive" rhyming with "division" is clearly more
euphonious and in keeping with the rules for creating nouns and
adjectives from verbs. |
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| benlizro at (no spam) ihug.co.nz... |
| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 2:39 pm |
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On May 8, 9:25 am, Marc <marc.ad... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: On May 7, 2:42 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma... at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote:
Free variation, like "economics."
I'd never heard it before, but now it's the only way the combovers and
boobjobs on the teeveenewz say it.
Marc
?? Aren't there two variables here? Your spelling suggested both
short /I/ and /s/.
Of the four possibilities (/ais/ /aiz/ /Iz/ /Is/) the last seems to me
the least likely. I'm pretty sure I have heard the other three at one
time or another.
/ais/ is the one given by my British sources. Fits with incisive,
decisive and maybe some others.
/Iz/ would be like divisible
/aiz/ like derisive (my NOD gives both s and z for this).
But I can't get /Is/. No doubt there's an SPE rule somewhere that
explains this...
So which were you talking about? And what seems to you the proper
pronunciation?
Ross Clark |
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| ranjit_mathews at (no spam) yahoo.com... |
| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 2:55 pm |
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On May 7, 4:33 pm, analys... at (no spam) hotmail.com wrote:
Quote: On May 7, 5:25 pm, Marc <marc.ad... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
On May 7, 2:42 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma... at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote:
Free variation, like "economics."
I'd never heard it before, but now it's the only way the combovers and
boobjobs on the teeveenewz say it.
Marc
I always thought that "divisive" rhyming with "divide" is typical
American overenunciation (a la "ge-nu-wine") but in this case while
Americans use both versions, the Brits apparently use only the
unsubtle version. "Divisive" rhyming with "division" is clearly more
euphonious and in keeping with the rules for creating nouns and
adjectives from verbs.
Is Kuru not rhyming with Kaurava uneuphonic, then? |
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| Marc... |
| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:39 pm |
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On May 8, 2:29 am, Ruud Harmsen <realemailons... at (no spam) rudhar.com.invalid>
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Quote: What does Marc's respelling mean? Does it refer to a difference in the
second vowel, or to s/z?
I was indicating the /dIvIsIv/ pronunciation as opposed to /dIvAisIv/
(if that's how the phonetic spelling works).
Marc |
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| Marc... |
| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:52 pm |
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On May 7, 7:39 pm, "benli... at (no spam) ihug.co.nz" <benli... at (no spam) ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Quote: But I can't get /Is/. No doubt there's an SPE rule somewhere that
explains this...
It's this one. It rhymes with "dismissive." It's all over the news
these days in the US.
Marc |
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