Pronounced: BEN-ih-dict, noun
Notes: I know “benediction”, but not this word
Yesterday’s word
The word epenthesis is “the insertion or development of a sound or letter in the body of a word”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
There are lots of examples of this – one of the ones I’ve heard is pronouncing “wash” as “warsh”. Other examples of epenthesis are “film” pronounced “FILL-um”. A slightly less known one is pronouncing cummerbund as “CUM-ber-bund”. Perhaps you have run across some of your own? Our word came from the late Latin word epenthesis (inserting a letter), which came from the Greek word epenthesis, which is made up of epi- (upon; before; after) and en- (within; in) and thesis (placing).
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