Marketo Fu Episode 7 Naming Conventions Youtube Summary: the confusion may come from 'forte' as used in music for strong or loud, which is definitely pronounced 'for tay' = ˈfɔr teɪ . in french, the same letters are pronounced 'fort' = fɔrt . but those languages are not english, and english has its own rules, inspired by the originals but with no compunction to remain faithful, at least here with the french borrowing. I agree the original should be 'hold the fort' and 'hold down…' looks like an aberration. is it too much to speculate that 'hold down…' could have come from a land lubbers variation on something like 'make all secure and batten down the hatches!" where the security is against the weather, not a human enemy?.
Youtube What is the correct way to pronounce niche? i've always said and heard nitch, but now i hear neesh, but it always sounds trendy to me. thoughts?. I'd like to know the etymology of the word "ginger" in reference to red headed people. in particular, if "ginger" in this context is related to the plant root used in cooking, i'd like to know how. Quite a few words are mispronounced by under educated people, or people learning english as a second language. some words are often mispronounced by quite educated people who read, and began readin. 0 they're essentially synonymous: proclivity is 'leaning to', propensity is 'nearness to' and predilection is 'preference for'. worry about something more significant like the misuse of the words irony and disinterest or the mispronunciation of the the words route and forte.
The Big Fu Episode 5 Youtube Quite a few words are mispronounced by under educated people, or people learning english as a second language. some words are often mispronounced by quite educated people who read, and began readin. 0 they're essentially synonymous: proclivity is 'leaning to', propensity is 'nearness to' and predilection is 'preference for'. worry about something more significant like the misuse of the words irony and disinterest or the mispronunciation of the the words route and forte. The closest definition i could find is that of the heteronym: a heteronym (also known as a heterophone) is a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning from another word but the same spelling. these are homographs that are not homophones. heteronyms don't necessarily have a different amount of syllables, but these are included. other examples of heteronyms are present, produce, lead. In the example you cite, to and fro is essentially identical in meaning to back and forth. however, to and fro can also carry the less specific sense of ‘moving about in different directions,’ similar to here and there, as in the lambs frolicked to and fro on the grassy hill. to and fro is alive and well in present day english usage, but it sounds somewhat antiquated and may seem unduly. "back and forth" is the more correct idiom, because, well, that's the idiom. there's nothing to stop you from saying "forth and back" — a little voice is repeating the subtitle to the hobbit, which is there and back again, to me — but you won't be using the english idiom, you'll merely be speaking words. From what i gathered on the web, "connoisseur" is spelled that way because it is derived from the old french verb "connoître" (to know) which has been spelled "connaître" for close to two centuries.
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