Re: Tempermental

On 25 May 2007, Dominic Bojarski wrote

On May 25, 1:05 pm, HVS <use...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 25 May 2007, John Kane wrote

On May 25, 6:19 am, Mike M <mikmoo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Tempermental".

It crops up all over the place.

Acceptable (AmE?) alternative spelling of "temperamental"? Or
eggcorn?

Mike M

Just bad spelling.

True, but an understandable phonetic spelling, as dropping the
"a" is very common.

If it's phonetic, I would expect to see "tempramental" more
often. Or am I unusual in pronouncing it that way?

I don't think it's unusual, but I think both the "tempra-" and
"temper-" pronunciations are pretty common.

(What I think *would* be fairly unusual would be a full five-syllable
pronunciation.)

--
Cheers, Harvey

Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed


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