First, Yanks may be interested to know that “vitamin” is pronounced “VITTA-min” by the Brits. True story. Thinking about it, though, I have to concede (and this rarely happens) that their pronunciation makes more sense than ours. Why should that be a long “i” sound? Another British pronunciation: “conTROVErsy” for controversy. Honest to goodness. But […]

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