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Michael J. Scott specializes in action/adventure thrillers and suspense. He released four novels between 2010 and 2011, and is expecting to release twice that many in 2012. lives outside of Rochester, NY with his wife and three children.
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Editor/Author Linda Yezak lives in a forest in east Texas with her husband and three cats. She is a speaker/lecturer for various writers' groups and conferences. Her first novel, Give the Lady a Ride, won the 2011 Grace Award for Romance. Her second novel, The Cat Lady's Secret, is represented by Terry Burns of Hartline Literary.
That was hilarious! It's always great when I can learn something on a Friday. I still have to sit there and think about it before I write down affect or effect. I think that one will always get me.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cindy. I have to give the hat-tip to my mother, who sent that clip around last night in an e-mail 'to all my wordsmiths.'
ReplyDeleteThis is great! I admit I've been guilty of mispronouncing quite a few of those at one point or another. But I don't think it gets worse than pronouncing Gibraltar "Gibble-tar." Yeah.
ReplyDeleteIn Anne McCaffrey's excellent novel Dragonflight, the protag F'lar, wingleader at Benden Weyr and rider of the bronze dragon Mnementh. In my head, I always pronounced that 'Mehnem-neth.' Instead, it should be something more along the lines of 'numenth.' I mispronounced that name for 20 years until I was actually discussing the name of the dragon out loud with another fan and they pronounced it correctly. Color me embarrassed.
ReplyDeleteI always appreciate it when authors include a pronunciation guide for difficult names - preferably in the front of the book, not the back.
ReplyDeleteHeh! Love it.
ReplyDeleteThat was great! Had to watch it twice to catch it all.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE THIS! THANK YOU for the effect vs affect lesson.
ReplyDeleteI think the one thing I've mispronounced was plethora. I said pleTHORa instead of PLEthora. How embarrassing.
I hear mischievous people say "mis-CHEE-vee-us," but it's really "MISS-chuh-vus." Folks, there is no E or I between the V and "ous"!
ReplyDeleteOne word I've always had trouble getting my tongue around is "asphyxiate" or any of its forms. It seems unnatural to follow an S sound with an F sound, then an X sound. What other word does that? To get around it, I pronounce it with a silent S. Even though technically it's wrong, at least I don't stumble over it and people know what I'm talking about!
~ VT
I just thought of "suffix," though that's two syllables instead of trying to get all three phonetics into one syllable. Maybe I should pronounce it "a-suffixiate"? LOL!
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Too funny, and informative! Macabre was my down fall, I said 'macabre' instead of 'macab' Ooops.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
Thats great! I will no longer say "hold down the fort!"
ReplyDeleteI never thought about that "hold down the fort" thing, but obviously... how could you do that? :) And glad I don't use the word macabre much - 'cause I certainly pronounce it wrong in my head! :D
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