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Crayon is not pronounced "cran."


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Caramel is not pronounced "car-mull."

 

Scenario is not pronounced "sen-eh-rio."

 

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people who pronounce Crayon "Cran" should be forced to eat Crayola Crayons instead of Cranberry sauce on Christmas and Thanksgiving :|

 

I mean that

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Wrong.

 

Those words are, in fact, pronounced those ways. By a great enough amount of people to get you complaining about it, at least.

 

Presumably, what you actually meant to say is that it is incorrect to pronounce those words in that manner. But that's not what you said. And it is extremely hypocritical of you to employ a "you know what I meant" argument while admonishing others' use of language.

 

The thing about language is that the rules for it are not prescribed by any sort of authoritative body. They are dictated by common use, in aggregate. A dictionary is much more like a newspaper than an instruction manual. Furthermore, a good deal of pronunciation variety is due to regional dialects. Regional dialects are not incorrect, and they are not inferior.

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