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

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🗓️ 7 August 2009

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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? -- Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: [email protected] Phone: United States toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Site: http://waywordradio.org. Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2009, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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