Words pronounced differently (in early tv and movies)

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18. Language is a living thing & evolves.

I didn't really think of that until I bought this absolutely delightful book, "There Is No Zoo in Zoology: And Other Beastly Mispronunciations" by Charles Harrington Elster. He wrote a second book, "Is There a Cow in Moscow?" Both are good. The first was exceptional.

https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Zoo-Zoology-Mispronunciations/dp/0020318308

Example: He discusses how the word despicable used to be pronounced DES-pic-a-ble with the accent on the first syllable, & then along came a silly, cartoon duck who changed the way we say an entire series of words.

DES-pic-a-ble became de-SPIC-a-ble

FORM-id-a-ble became for-MID-a-ble

IR-rev-o-ca-ble became ir-re-VOC-a-ble

Fascinating book if you're into that type of thing.