Blooms in the Desert - Weekly Writing Tips from Palm Springs
Improving the language landscape one day at a time
Saturday, August 13, 2011
As We Speak #3 (words often mispronounced)
because > be-COZ, not be-CUZ nuclear> nu-KLEE-ar, not nu-KEW-lar
bouquet> BOO-kay, not BO-kay recognize> rec-OG-nize, not rec-uh-nize
dissect> DIS-sect, not DI-sect cyclical> SI-clic-al, not sic-lic-al
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