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Journal by stefanlasiewski on Saturday March 01, 2003 @09:58PM

Ha! Finally a group with some authority on the matter.

I prefer octopod, myself.

Now I'm going to find everyone who corrected me in grammar school with a snotty 'It's OctoPI, stupid' and smack them around with the OED.

Honestly, askoxford is a great site for the grammar-challenged.

Although they still can't explain why some people (here in N. America) say "Wenz-day" wheras other people say "Wed-nez-day", and yet others say "Wedns-day". It's spelled Wednesday, but which is it?

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by GMontag ( 42283 ) writes:

Octopussy and hump-day
It's wenz-day according to askoxford.com (Score:2)

by stefanlasiewski ( 63134 ) writes:

From: ASK OXFORD
To: "'stefanl@flarg.org'"
Subject: WEDNESDAY

Thank you for your enquiry to Ask Oxford.

Here is the relevant ruling from A Dictionary of
Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner
(OUP 1998):

Wednesday is pronounced /wenz-day/ or /wenz-dee/. But some precisians want to -
and do - say /wed-nez-day/, which is simply
incorrect. As it happens, the first -d- has long
been silent.

Margot Charlton
Ask Oxford

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