OK English "grammar" experts, how are these words pronounced?
Ridiculous?
Calculate?
Basically any word with the u sound in the middle.
I hear so many people using the Ah sound for the u instead of the uh sound. Websters for certain specifies the uh sound and not the ah sound.
A friend that is constantly correcting everyone's grammar claims it is the ah sound but see also pronounces transient (tran-gent) and forward (fo-ward). I hear a lot of people using foward which is an acceptable pronunciation which I do not see how it should be. Also tran-gent is an acceptable pronunciation of transient which I have no idea how it could be.
Ridiculous?
Calculate?
Basically any word with the u sound in the middle.
I hear so many people using the Ah sound for the u instead of the uh sound. Websters for certain specifies the uh sound and not the ah sound.
A friend that is constantly correcting everyone's grammar claims it is the ah sound but see also pronounces transient (tran-gent) and forward (fo-ward). I hear a lot of people using foward which is an acceptable pronunciation which I do not see how it should be. Also tran-gent is an acceptable pronunciation of transient which I have no idea how it could be.