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How Do You Pronounce "Etiquette"? Minicast -7 Aug. 2009

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

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🗓️ 7 August 2009

⏱️ 7 minutes

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If a colleague repeatedly mispronounces a word, what’s the best way to handle it? Should you correct him? Ignore it? Is it possible to discuss the proper way to say something without being rude or condescending? Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org. Be a part of the show: call or text 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text +1 619 800 4443. Send voice notes or messages via WhatsApp 16198004443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to another mini-cast, away with words. I'm Grant Barrett. We'll be back with brand new

0:53.7

episodes in the fall but for the summer we're catching up with some calls that

0:56.9

we couldn't fit on to the show last season. Aaron is a pastor from Peru

1:01.3

Indiana. He wants to know how he should handle a situation in which a colleague

1:05.4

pronounces a word incorrectly. Does he flat out just correct him? Does he do nothing? How did two people talk to each other about the right way to say

1:14.3

something without being rude or condescending? Well my question is this. I am a

1:19.3

pastor here in Peru and when I was in school we often talk about different Saints and philosophers

1:27.1

the same that comes to mind as Augustine.

1:29.8

Some people would pronounce his name Augustine and some people would say it's a godestin

1:34.5

uh... my question isn't so much how to pronounce that

1:37.8

when in conversation with someone and you look say i pronounce of aug and the person pronounce of the Augustine.

1:43.5

Is it polite or is the proper to just sort of give up the way I usually say it and say it

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