Yes, but does "pronunc" in "pronunciation" sound anything like
"pronounce"? No, and you don't spell them the same, but they're
related.
Similarly, at least the way I say it, "inform" doesn't sound like the
first part of "information" (I would write it "infirmation" because
it
sounds more like "infirm" than "inform), yet it's spelt identically.
And remember that even perscriptivists generally concede when
something had already passed into popular usage at least a generation
ago - "reknowned" may not be etymologically correct, and tightwads
such as yourself may peck to death those who have at some point or
another decided that the word is properly spelt that way, but if you
break it down - "re - known - ed" - it makes perfect sense because the
definition of the word I pronunce (make that "pronounce") as /ri 'nau
nd/ is something along the lines of "well-known". And please don't
question the "re-" prefix because you can "refer" to something
without
having ever "fer"red to it before, you can "relate" to somebody
without having ever "late"d to them before, and you can "relish" or
"resign" or "refute" without having ever "lish"ed,
"sign"ed, or
"fute"d before.
Mark
On 28/05/05, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
he _is_ a world-reknowned expert
I highly doubt that. Although he might be a _world-renowned_ expert.
Throughout the past week, I have fixed on the order of one hundred
articles with that spelling mistake in them.
And here I am trying very hard to understand how someone can think that
a word that is pronounced the way "renowned" is, can possibly have a k
in it. It is not even pronounced anything like "know" or
"knowledge".
Furthermore, as "gnostic" versus "agnostic" clearly teaches us,
letters
do not tend to become silent when there is a prefix before them.
Timwi
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