Re: Compile with watcom fails
- Posted by useless_ Apr 08, 2012
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Dictionary.com shows that the two have overlapping pronounciations:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/your?db=%252A http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/you're?db=%252A
I'll say it flat out: is wrong.
The written contraction is a representation of the audible contraction. People who run togther the word "you" and the word "are" will produce the correct pronunciation of the contraction "you're". What has done is patch their dictionary to keep up with the way the words are currently used, the acceptable use of the masses, which is what dictionaries have done since the first. They add words, they change words, they drop words. The fact that the mispronunciation is now mainstream does not make it correct to print the wrong word, and it doesn't make it correct to mispronounce it.
FWIW, it's also annoying to hear weather people on tv say "tempachur" for "temperature", when they'd never say "tempach" for "temperate". No doubt will legitimize that too.
useless
