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Good words gone bad
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THE WORD is harmless enough. It has five letters. It doesn't have
an inordinate number of consonants or vowels. It is commonly used in
conversation.
But nearly always, it is pronounced incorrectly.
And that rankles true verbivores.
"Oh, yes. 'Forte,'" says Paul Brians with a perceptible sigh,
pronouncing the word meaning a person's strength as it should be,
monosyllabically without a flourishing finish on the word's final
vowel. "I've given up on that one. It's a ...
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