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Misplaced Foreign Inflections
October 25, 2014 8:51 am
(@grantbarrett)
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Open your kitchen cupboard or a cookbook, and chances are you'll come across a lot of spices and peppers with recognizable names that you still can't pronounce properly, like turmeric, cayenne, and habanero. We often give foreign-sounding inflections to foreign-looking words, and many times we're wrong. This is part of a complete episode.
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