http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/film-biographies Language in a word Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:13:52 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/film-biographies/comment-page-1#comment-16311 Online Film indir Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:23:32 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/?p=470#comment-16311 Thank you for the information. Thank you for the information.

]]> http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/film-biographies/comment-page-1#comment-14466 John Maidment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:32:48 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/?p=470#comment-14466 I had a teacher at school who always used to say [əˈbɒrɪdʒɪnz]. I had a teacher at school who always used to say [əˈbɒrɪdʒɪnz].

]]> http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/film-biographies/comment-page-1#comment-14449 Philip TAYLOR Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:36:25 +0000 http://www.linguism.co.uk/?p=470#comment-14449 I confess that I internalised biopic as /baɪˈɒpɪk/ for a long while, until I finally realised what it meant, but I have never had occasion to use the word in conversation so have at least managed to avoid making a spoken faux pas. But as a child, I regularly pronounced "foliage" as it it were "foilage", and "lieutenant" as "'lyewtenant", so I make no claims to being good at predicting the correct pronunciation for a previously unknown word ... I confess that I internalised biopic as /baɪˈɒpɪk/ for a long while, until I finally realised what it meant, but I have never had occasion to use the word in conversation so have at least managed to avoid making a spoken faux pas. But as a child, I regularly pronounced “foliage” as it it were “foilage”, and “lieutenant” as “‘lyewtenant”, so I make no claims to being good at predicting the correct pronunciation for a previously unknown word …

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