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"They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.": http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/an-honor-for-the-cr...


Most linguists would agree that it is logically contradictory to state that the majority of speakers pronounce a word incorrectly, because the correct pronunciation is determined by observing how people actually say a word, and not how one very special person thinks other people should pronounce it.


Isn't prescriptivism vs. descriptivism actually a very old divide among linguists?


It is a very old divide, and the descriptivists won a very long time ago. I'm sure there are prescriptivist linguists around somewhere but I haven't met them.




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