Am I being rude? Am I a pronounciation troll?
Or am I just going deaf?
I was watching an American YouTube video on the board game RA. In hope of finding out whehter it was actually no fun at all or if it was just me.
And the guy with the job of explaining the game kept pronouncing the word ‘epoch’ as ‘epic’. Have a listen yourself: see if he doesn’t. Because if he doesn’t then I’m going deaf.
I was about to write a terse, acerbic reply and then I thought: The young people would not thank me for this. They would think I am a troll. They would call me arrogant.
And at times in the past I have discovered that the person misprouncing ‘Blakeney’ as in ‘Sir Percy’ was dyslexic and couldn’t tell the pronounciation from reading the world.
But dammit, the next American who pronounces ‘cretin’ as ‘Cretan’ (i.e. someone from Crete) I’m going to bit their head off.