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madamesilverspurs

(15,806 posts) Tue Feb 21, 2017, 03:19 PM Feb 2017

Spicerspeak

What is this "pre-VAY-lent" that he likes to utter?

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Spicerspeak (Original Post) madamesilverspurs Feb 2017 OP

I was about to post that he mispronounced "prevalent." Chiyo-chichi Feb 2017 #1

You mispelled moron. guillaumeb Feb 2017 #2

I should get a brain... Chiyo-chichi Feb 2017 #3

I think he just said... Chiyo-chichi Feb 2017 #4

Chiyo-chichi

(3,582 posts)

1. I was about to post that he mispronounced "prevalent."

Reply to madamesilverspurs (Original post)

Tue Feb 21, 2017, 03:24 PM

Feb 2017

He's a moron.
I'd suggest that we flood him with copies of Kenyon and Knott's Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, but he'd never figure out the international phonetic alphabet, so he'd never figure out how to use it.