i'm interested in how the mis-chee-vee-us pronunciation came about, considering the word isn't spelled mischievious. is it a regional thing that has spread over time or is it something else?
A pronunciation \mis-ˈchē-vē-əs\ and a consequent spelling mischievious are of long standing: evidence for the spelling goes back to the 16th century. Our pronunciation files contain modern attestations ranging from dialect speakers to Herbert Hoover. But both the pronunciation and the spelling are still considered nonstandard.
My phone doesn’t even bother to correct it. If I do “look up” it’ll show it spelled without the n, but it just totally accepts the n because that’s obviously how the word should actually be spelled
i'm interested in how the mis-chee-vee-us pronunciation came about, considering the word isn't spelled mischievious. is it a regional thing that has spread over time or is it something else?
I did a super-quick google...
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you're telling me language is dialectical? :curious-marx:
probably similar to how restaurateur doesn't have an n in it, yet a lot of people still pronounce it (myself included)
This is the first time I realized that it doesn’t. What the fuck?
IT'S FUCKED UP RIGHT?!?
My phone doesn’t even bother to correct it. If I do “look up” it’ll show it spelled without the n, but it just totally accepts the n because that’s obviously how the word should actually be spelled