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I am a staunch anti-prescriptivist except, of course, when it comes to the words “crypto” and “algorithm”

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zoology, it turns out, the prescriptivists will tell you is pronounced /zoh-ol-ә-jee/, not /zoo-ol-ә-jee/ — for me the most surprising entry in Garner’s list of commonly mispronounced words in his Modern English Usage