Comments on: The “Ex” Factor: Misspellings and Pronunciations http://languageandgrammar.com/2008/04/11/the-ex-factor-misspellings-and-pronunciations/ Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:34:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gabe http://languageandgrammar.com/2008/04/11/the-ex-factor-misspellings-and-pronunciations/#comment-948 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:18:42 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.wordpress.com/?p=110#comment-948 This drives me nuts, too. I was watching a well known film and listening to the commentary recently. Low and behold, the writer of the movie says excape, quite often. I thought, if the writer of a near billion dollar movie (it was one of the Pirates of the Carribean movies) says this, what is this world coming to? It was absolutely ridiculous. I also hear this every day from regular people. I wonder where it comes from, as they don’t teach it in schools.

]]> By: angus25 http://languageandgrammar.com/2008/04/11/the-ex-factor-misspellings-and-pronunciations/#comment-196 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:48:14 +0000 http://languageandgrammar.wordpress.com/?p=110#comment-196 i think you should consider other “ex” words, such as example and exaggerate. the “ex” in these words is pronounced with a hard g, as in the word egg. well, that’s what i was told. i’m no master of english. :)

Reply: Thanks for the idea.

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