08.08.20 A Rendezvous with the Importance of Pronunciation
My daughters just came downstairs giggling. My older daughter gently teasing my littlest for asking her in a game what the ren-dezz-vuss (i.e. rendezvous) point would be. “No silly,” said my elder. “Ron-day-voo.” But as I told my littlest, she should be proud. The mispronunciation meant that she’d learned the word through reading–she’d never heard it…