http://kdiddy.org/2009/11/15/only-two-more-sunday-nablopomo-posts/ well-established blogger Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:49:22 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://kdiddy.org/2009/11/15/only-two-more-sunday-nablopomo-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-19422 jess s Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:58:39 +0000 http://kdiddy.org/?p=1498#comment-19422 i, for one, am very glad that you posted this since i have also been pronouncing it incorrectly for at least the last 20 years. upon my exclamations of, "oh my god ennui is pronounced AHN_WEE!!!! WTF!!!" my wife smugly said, "you can't be serious," followed by "This is why I learned to pronounce words from people and not from reading books." This is, in all fairness, my problem. I learned words like ennui (and a million others) from reading and not from conversation, so i inevitably pronounce them wrong. i, for one, am very glad that you posted this since i have also been pronouncing it incorrectly for at least the last 20 years. upon my exclamations of, “oh my god ennui is pronounced AHN_WEE!!!! WTF!!!” my wife smugly said, “you can’t be serious,” followed by “This is why I learned to pronounce words from people and not from reading books.” This is, in all fairness, my problem. I learned words like ennui (and a million others) from reading and not from conversation, so i inevitably pronounce them wrong.

]]> http://kdiddy.org/2009/11/15/only-two-more-sunday-nablopomo-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-19413 Lisa Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:27:50 +0000 http://kdiddy.org/?p=1498#comment-19413 thank goodness you put the link in so I could look up that word. For the record, you could have pronounced it any old way you wanted to. It would have been lost on me, and I consider myself to have a fairly decent vocabulary! thank goodness you put the link in so I could look up that word. For the record, you could have pronounced it any old way you wanted to. It would have been lost on me, and I consider myself to have a fairly decent vocabulary!

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