wicked fuckin pissah
Oh shit, didn't know Pete Hegseth had joined the Norks
\NICH\ is the more common one and the older of the two pronunciations. It is the only pronunciation given for the word in all English dictionaries until the 20th century, when \NEESH\ was first listed as a pronunciation variant in Daniel Jones's English Pronouncing Dictionary (1917). \NEESH\ wasn’t listed as a pronunciation in our dictionaries until our 1961 Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, and it wasn’t entered into our smaller Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary until 1993. Even then, it was marked in the Collegiate as a pronunciation that was in educated use but not considered acceptable until 2003.
Quiet can mean either low volume or silent. So it's saying the silent part out loud-- there's no contradiction here.
Tuvix did nothing wrong
I really wish there were enough lemmings to maintain ling or grammar communities here. It's one thing I really miss from reddit
How do you feel about other words or phrases that have different meanings in specific fields vs common use? Like a scientific theory is very different from your buddy's theory about what the movie you watched meant. Since beg is a stronger word than raise, some statements scream out for questions in response, while others merely give rise to some further need for clarification.
Here's one mnemonic l: most of the time effect is a noun, which use articles a/the. "The" ends with e and effect starts with e, so "the effect" lines up the e's.
Or you could try RAVEN: remember affect verb, effect noun
I love when people try to justify all the preposition use in grammar, like we don't have countless examples of it being completely arbitrary. Like why don't we "watch at" a movie like we look at a painting, much like listen to vs hear. Or why do verbs with similar meanings take different prepositions, like decide on vs opt for (vs choose without a prep).
Also called tmesis, which includes (as was also mentioned below in this thread), abso-fucking-lutely
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The quiet (silent) part isn't normally said. That's why the meaning is "you're saying all the parts out loud together, even the parts that are supposed to be silent/quiet". There was no indication that the "quiet part" was a verbal expression before the "out loud" modifier.