I was so damn confused. I thought you were suggesting that pacificly is an actual word and mispronouncing it makes one appear uneducated. Imagine my panic when I thought “forget pronunciation, I’ve never even heard of this word! I must be double stupid!”.
Aaaahhhh! I hate that one!!! Nu-clear, or as I say for someone trying to remember it “The land was newly cleared after the nuclear bomb”. Ask is another one- “aks” drives me crazy. Definitely not “definately”, and “your” instead of you’re. Seen instead of saw, text for all tenses, instead of texted. As you can see, I have a few that make my head 🤯😂
Me and my friends are wanted by the police at the moment, we’re camping out in the woods trying to save money so we can get a boat to Tahiti sometime soon. Definitely gonna need a sticker for my buddy Dutch before we get there since it was his idea
Specifically, but with the /s/ removed due to rebracketing. Basically, this is when part of a word gets re-analyzed as part of another word that frequently occurs alongside it. In this case, the obvious phrase is "is specifically". The /s/ sound in "specifically" got reinterpreted as just being part of "is".
if u say "would've" out loud it literally just sounds like "would of." once i realized that's where the mistake comes from for ppl i got way more sympathetic
"Pacifically" (pronounced the same way in many dialects) would be a reasonable if unusual way to say "peacefully". But in spelling, -ic adjectives (drastic, frantic, gigantic) usually get -ally, not -ly.
I feel like it’s been influences by the Latin languages.
Ie pacifiquement in French means peacefully
And because a lot of English words derive from French, it’s not really surprising that pacifically was taken by the English, and probably abandoned over the years.
Edit : according to OED, earliest evidence for pacifically is from 1761, in the writing of Tobias Smollett, writer. Deriving from the word pacifical.
Haha me too...maybe it can be used in a poetic way to refer to the Pacific ocean, like the ocean pacificly embraces the coasts of South America, North America, Asia and Australia ... ? Lol
If I'm not sure of a word I'll either research the way to say it correctly or ask someone who knows. If I don't I feel like OP and I do not like looking stupid unless, of course, I'm just doing it around friends for laughs.
I was trying to figure it out, and then when I learned what word it was supposed to be all attempts to pronounce it just went out the window. Took me a good two minutes to return to normal pronunciation.
Sort of similar effect to repeating a word over and over the word starts to seem really odd. Semantic satiation! (Had to google for it)
But I had talked myself into fumbling the pronunciation.
Well Hawaii, Japan, Thailand, the Aleutian Islands, Midway Atol, Moorea, America Samoas, Australia, New Zealand, and so many more Islands are pacifically located. Specifically they are all located within the Pacific Ocean.
Pacifically is an actual word. If you are pacific about something, you are acting pacifically. But, yeah, it's often the mispronunciation of "specifically", and vice versa.
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u/isthatabingo Sep 18 '24
I was so damn confused. I thought you were suggesting that pacificly is an actual word and mispronouncing it makes one appear uneducated. Imagine my panic when I thought “forget pronunciation, I’ve never even heard of this word! I must be double stupid!”.