SkippyO
Grandma70s
If you transcribe fortitude as FortyChewed, you aren't pronouncing fortitude correctly. There’s no
‘ch’ sound in it. It’s FortyTewd.
I did suggest the revised spelling should closely resemble its British English pronunciation and chewed would then sound like most Brits would say the -tude part of fortitude. I agree that an American accent would be different again.
Nautical - Gnaw Tickle
I was talking about British English, too! Forty Chewed would be very poor pronunciation,. Do you really think most British people would use that pronunciation? Well, you may be right. There’s a lot of lazy speech about. As Professor Higgins says in My Fair Lady, “Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?”.
