Lets negotiate

[Drago]

I'm Posh, like, you know. Only the highest class in society drive an 11 year old Kia Sportage, but its still negoSHEate.

 

[Ian H]

Possible, but more likely that taking the /t/ from the original Latin negotiari felt more authoritative. Incidentally, Churchill called it jaw jaw and found it preferable to war war, which wouldn't rhyme in many languages....

Actually, thinking about it, I'm sure I have seen 'negociate' in old texts from the 18th/19th centuries.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I've noticed an increasing number of interviewees who begin every answer with "So". Drives me nuts.

So, I heard that too. What's with that?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Actually, thinking about it, I'm sure I have seen 'negociate' in old texts from the 18th/19th centuries.

It certainly doesn't look ''wrong'' to me.

 

[Drago]

Or people who make speeches who ask a question and then answer it themselves. Grrrr....

 

[tyred]

Or people who make speeches who ask a question and then answer it themselves. Grrrr....

You've met my aunt?

 

[tyred]

In order to ingratiate myself, I may initiate a negotiation in order to differentiate and thereby circumstantiate the pronunciation of this word. I hope you wouldn't consider me licentiate because I am actually novitiate although I hope to potentiate in order to propitiate and satiate, and hence substantiate your post.

And for the English speakers on the forum?

 

[Tin Pot]

That's nearly as bad as when people pronounce England as Engurland

Acceptable only when singing, repeatedly and ad nauseum.

 

[Tin Pot]

Perhaps because Old French was spelt differently, even variously.

Old French is a kind of bread now is it?

 

[swee'pea99]

My gran used to consider people common if they blew their nose on a 'tishoo'. "The word is tiss-you."

 

[Tin Pot]

My gran used to consider people common if they blew their nose on a 'tishoo'. "The word is tiss-you."

Too bloody right.

 

[winjim]

And for the English speakers on the forum?

Is that an attempt to vitiate?

I blame the Romans. According to the dictionary, it's from the Latin negotiat (from the verb negotiari).


It was the French what spelled it wrong like...

I'm sure we can all appreciate how to enunciate.

 

[slowmotion]

My gran used to consider people common if they blew their nose on a 'tishoo'. "The word is tiss-you."

They probably watched ITV as well.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I blame the Romans...

According to the dictionary, it's from the Latin negotiat (from the verb negotiari).

I know! What did they ever do for us anyway?

Sure it's Latin originally but English exposure to the word would have been via French, i.e. Norman not Roman, and French prefers the /c/. (Not that I have a Norman French dictionary to hand. Or anywhere, for that matter.)

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

My gran used to consider people common if they blew their nose on a 'tishoo'. "The word is tiss-you."

And I'm convinced that atishoo comes from the French ''A tes souhaits.''