Charles Harrington Elster
Auteur de The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete Opinionated Guide for the Careful Speaker
A propos de l'auteur
Charles Harrington Elster is a nationally recognized authority on language. He is the orthoepist for Wordnik.com and the author of Verbal Advantage and many other books. His articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in San Diego, afficher plus California. Find out more at http://members.authorsguild.net/chelster. afficher moins
Œuvres de Charles Harrington Elster
The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete Opinionated Guide for the Careful Speaker (1999) 234 exemplaires
Is There a Cow in Moscow?: More Beastly Mispronunciations and Sound Advice : Another Opinionated Guide for the… (1990) 65 exemplaires
What in the Word? Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language (Harvest Original) (2005) 50 exemplaires
Verbal Advantage Vocabulary Program Complete Edition - 24 CD's (Success Edition AND Success Edition Advanced), c2005… (2005) 5 exemplaires
There is no Zoo in Zoology 1 exemplaire
There is no zoo in zoology 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Harry Potter's World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives (2002) — Contributeur — 90 exemplaires
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- 1957
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- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- San Diego, California, USA
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Grocery: apparently it is groh-suh-ree, with an S, not grohsh-ree, with an SH. I've probably said and heard this word a million times in my life, and never once with an S sound.
New: the proper way to say it is NYOO, like in newt. Surprised the pants off me!
Any word with "-alm": ahm, with no L sound. This one was a total shock because it meant that I've been saying balm, calm, palm, psalm, almond, etc. completely wrong. Except for salmon, that one I nailed (small consolation). Really, we are supposed to pronounce balm like bomb? Really?! Frankly, there's no way I'm going to starting saying these words without the L sound because it sounds awful to my ears.
My favorite passages are the ones that contain fun tidbits, like calling out famous people for saying something wrong, or describing a personal encounter with a mispronouncer. Also when the author gives information about a pronunciation that goes beyond what is in various dictionaries, such as how locals say a certain place name.
One very big thing I've taken away from this book is a sensitivity when it comes to the words pronounce and pronunciation. They came up a lot in this book (obviously), and I was saying "pronunciation" wrong (I think; it's sometimes hard to remember how you say a word in your natural speech). Now I'm very aware of it, for better or worse.… (plus d'informations)