On 03/01/2018 02:08, Johnny B Good wrote:
I was watching the first episode of this six episode miniseries today
and at 40 minutes and 20 seconds in[1], was staggered to hear, for the
first time in decades, the *correct* pronunciation of the word
"Controversy" in a television broadcast.

What is your authority for "the *correct* [sic] pronunciation"?

I ask because:

a. AFAIK the there is nothing equivalent to the Academie Francaise the
UK (or for England, Scotland etc);

b. the BBC (once the paragons of *received* pronunciation) recognise the
*traditional* pronunciation given by some dictionaries is not the one
used widely as recognised by eg Longmans

c. other dictionaries - including the OED online - have caught up with
modern usage and recognise both pronunciations which are common in the
UK as British English.








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