Phonetic Note Of The Day
Dec. 30th, 2002 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coalescentToday, Dee (the manager) used the word 'mithering' (as brought to my attention by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greengolux). The same sense - loosely, 'to bother at' - so it turns out it really isn't made up; but the pronunciation wasn't what I expected at all. In my head, it had a short 'i', as in 'mitchell'. Turns out, it's 'my', as in 'miser'.
So there you go.
greengolux). The same sense - loosely, 'to bother at' - so it turns out it really isn't made up; but the pronunciation wasn't what I expected at all. In my head, it had a short 'i', as in 'mitchell'. Turns out, it's 'my', as in 'miser'. So there you go.
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Date: 2002-12-31 11:42 am (UTC)