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Post by Ela on Oct 12, 2018 0:05:51 GMT
Great collection. Need more like this. My one pedantic nitpick is that in one story Lisa reads the word harass as harris. So, accurately then. "There are two possible pronunciations of the word harass: one with the stress on the har- and the other with the stress on the -ass. The former pronunciation is the older one and is regarded by some people as the only correct one, especially in British English. However, the pronunciation with the stress on the second syllable -rass is very common and is now accepted as a standard alternative." Beat me to it by a year. And a bit. Nice set of stories, enjoyed them and enjoyed Lisa's reading of them.
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Post by omega on Oct 12, 2018 1:29:14 GMT
So, accurately then. "There are two possible pronunciations of the word harass: one with the stress on the har- and the other with the stress on the -ass. The former pronunciation is the older one and is regarded by some people as the only correct one, especially in British English. However, the pronunciation with the stress on the second syllable -rass is very common and is now accepted as a standard alternative." Beat me to it by a year. And a bit. Nice set of stories, enjoyed them and enjoyed Lisa's reading of them. Won’t that make the statement “harrassing Harris” a bit confusing? It’d come out harrising Harris. It’s not the dayboo of this argument. English is a funny language, H is treated interchangeably as a vowel and a consonant, probably because it is a vowel in French (as is the letter Y).
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Post by Ela on Oct 12, 2018 3:59:38 GMT
It's not confusing. There's two acceptable ways to pronounce harass. End of story.
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