February: You're saying it wrong
FEBRUARY is the most mispronounced month. And that's fair enough: the linguistics are a mess.
As Akira Okrent from MentalFloss.com points out, February is just one of a litany of words where many people blatantly ignore the spelling and pronounce it the way they want.
"We simply do not like to have two r's so close to each other," Okrent wrote, before explaining it is the result of a process called "dissimilation".
In other words, the Rs are just too close. "Dissimilation" isn't isolated to February, either.
Many people say "suprise" when they should say "surprise", "paticular" instead of "particular", "beserk" over "berserk".
Feb-roo-air-ree. Try it and succeed.
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