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Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Is an experiment an expieriment?
Many of my German students of English who claim to speak GB pronounce experiment as /e/ɪ/əkspɪrɪme/ənt/. Why? They either think of experience or picked up the GA pronunciation variant /-spɪr-/. This variant is attested in LPD3 and Merriam-Webster Online, but not in EPD18.
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