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OFTEN

Incorrect pronunciation: off – ten

Correct pronunciation: off – en

If there is a bigger red flag for “I am misinformed about how to pronounce something” in our language, I have yet to encounter it. This word and its evolutionary course in American vernacular could be a cultural study unto itself.

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You will pry the t out of my cold, dead hands. And take it up with M-W. 

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This is a word that I pronounced correctly as a child and into my teens and then got peer-pressured into saying off-ten because THE WHOLE WORLD AROUND ME was putting a hard T sound in it. 

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01/17/12 at 11:04pm
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  1. joaniecash reblogged this from allisonwrote and added:
    Oh so we’re back to policing peoples vernacular? RAD. Douchebags.
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  5. lilyb said: You know, Rick Webb, and I say this with love, but that’s going to be quite the collection of stuff we’ll be prying out of your cold dead hands.
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