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Originally Posted by Thunderball
Saying words clearly wrong. Just like saying Italian like Ireland is clearly wrong, and saying pasta with the same A sound as Airdrie is also inproper. Its päs′tə
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Hey, pronounce things however you want. But I still kind of disagree with what you're saying.
From the dictionary on a random page:
album - from Latin
alcohol - from Arabic
alcove - from French (to French from Spanish)
alderman - from Old English
alert - from French
alfalfa - Spanish (from Arabic)
I doubt you pronounce all of these words according to the proper pronunciation of the language of their origin. I think that words like "pasta", have become English words, and so their pronunciation is actually correct for each English dialect they're being spoken in. In our dialect, it's not "pahhsta." I'm even sure an argument could even be made for "expresso".