Remember that there is no ‘noun’ in ‘pronunciation’
Pronunciation maven Charles Harrington Elster is a longtime resident of Kensington and was my original co-host on KPBS’s “A Way With Words.” Charlie, the nation’s foremost expert on pronunciation, points out that there is no noun in pronunciation, no zoo in zoology, no point in poinsettia, no sick in psychiatrist, no spear in experiment, no […]