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Author Topic: Intermittant "Dirty" Spot Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-04-2007 07:43 AM                        Here's one that even network news anchors get wrong. I hear it over and over. They say EXetera. Which of course anyone who watched THE KING AND I and listened to Yul Brynner knows it's the Latin and it's pronounced exactly like it's spelled ETcetera.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-04-2007 11:27 AM                        Well, before the grammer police shut us down, my current pet peeve on this topic is WMD's. It is already plural (unless one says a WMD). Oh well, it's like complaining about Attorney Generals  |  IP: Logged Tim Rectanus Film Handler Posts: 51 From: Raleigh, NC, USA Registered: Jul 2005 posted 09-05-2007 10:19 AM                        quote: Frank Angel See how awkward it sounds when you say it out loud: He just found out that he's contracted the HIV. In speech, your mind wants to hear a real word, not an acronym. That is why I just pronounce it like a word in that situation, HIV pronounced like HIM. The same way you do for the acronym PIN. The other option, and probably more common judging by the look I get when I pronounce it like that, is to just take out "the" from that sentence and you are set. He just found out that he's contracted HIV.  |  IP: Logged

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