Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Tomato / Tomahto

It always strikes me as funny whenever I hear a word pronounced one way my entire life and then all of a sudden "people" change the pronunciation. I'm like, "When did THAT happen?"

The word for the moment is: Empire

As in an Empire waist dress.

I thought it was pronounced em-PIE-er as in, The Roman Empire.

Now everyone is pronouncing it em-PEER.

When did this happen? Has it always been pronounced that way and I just missed the boat somehow? That's highly possible.

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