how do you pronouce words?

INVENIAMVIAM
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:20:54 +0000

Just to clear something up, I know a lot of people say words differently and there’s no “correct” pronunciation on some of these per se.

However, the word “often” is only correctly pronounced “offen.” Aka, no T. It was like this for a while but obviously the incorrect pronunciation is heard so commonly that no one seems to care anymore. But I hold that saying “of-ten” is a mispronunciation.

You can argue that since it’s usage has grown so much that it’s acceptable now to use the “newer” pronunciation. However, realize that it would be akin to saying puh-numonia for pneumonia or puh-sich-ology for “psychology.”

And if you intentionally say “of-Ten” to sound more formal or smarter, you are, ironically, revealing your idiocy.

Ah thank you. I saw this thread and the place to choose between “often” and “offen” pronunciations and was about to die. Haha. I’m glad someone cleared this up before I did.