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June 29, 2025 9:09 am
After hearing our conversation about how dictionaries decide on a preferred pronunciation, and specifically about how to pronounce aioli, Vern from San Diego, California, wrote to say that a friend once made fun of him for pronouncing grimace with a stress on the second syllable. But when they finally looked it up in a dictionary, they found that indeed grimace can be pronounced either of two ways. This is part of a complete episode.