![]() Eventually, the noun standardized to pronunciation, but because of influence from pronounce, we occasionally still see pronounciation in print, and encounter a corresponding pronunciation for pronounciation (\pruh-nown-see-AY-shun\). This means that, from about the 1500s onward, we see evidence of both pronounciation and pronunciation in the written record. But when the Latin verb was taken into Anglo-French and later entered Middle English, that second vowel was sometimes rendered as -u- and sometimes rendered as -ou. The confusion is understandable: the verb is pronounce, so why shouldn’t the noun be pronounciation? Both the noun and verb come ultimately from the Latin verb pronuntiare. Is it ' pronunciation' or ' pronounciation'?Īmong the various letters and emails we receive from correspondents asking for pronunciation help are a number in which pronunciation is spelled pronounciation.
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