In Reply to: When people abbreviate for the sake of brevity, trendiness, or posted by ej on March 17, 2025 at 08:06:56
every generation creates its own changes as a part of growing up and announcing our presence to all them old folks who have all the power when we're young. Mine sure did. The lack of getting it may be a symptom of getting older, my friend.
I remember my father used to cringe when people started pronouncing EXquisite as exQUISite. Are err as AIR. (To err is to make a mistake; to air is to fart.)
And I cringe over cutsie words like vacay - going to vaycay - sounds like decay.
LOL
We refer to the dictionary to tell us how words are pronounced but that's the point - ARE as opposed to SHOULD BE. The dictionary just reflects current usage and pronunciation and, since it's based on surveys that were taken (past tense) then edited and then published and then sent out to libraries and posted on the internet, it is necessarily just a record of what WAS as opposed to what is.
Change is hard (if ubiquitous) - for all of us