Thursday, December 20, 2012
"Or " else....
There are over 400 words in the English language ending with the letters "or." All that I can think of commonly have that last syllable pronounced with the schwa sound, no long "o"-------- administrator, doctor, educator, janitor, mayor, impostor, litigator, legislator, coordinator, aggressor, counselor, instructor, inferior, creditor, juror, junior----and these are just some of the words referring to persons. Others are factor, manor, glamor--the list goes on and on. Why then are we constantly subjected to hearing the word "mentor" pronounced to rhyme with gore? Kind of a faux-sophistication, do you think?
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