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Le 06/03/2026 à 07:17, Bertel Lund Hansen a écrit :
> Den 06.03.2026 kl. 05.38 skrev Peter Moylan:
> [...]
>>> Not me. It's one of my pet peeves, along with 'homogenous', 'intregal'
>>> and 'disect'.
>>
>> What's wrong with homogenous?
> 
> I think that he wants "homogeneous", but dictionary.com has both spelling.


'Homogenous' is more recent, less frequent, and could be a corruption of 
'homogeneous':

<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=homogenous%2Chomogeneous&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=false>

On the other hand, if you pick a peck of pukka people, you'll find they 
routinely skip syllables in some words. Comf'table, temp'rily (Jack 
Hawkins' pronunciation), int'rest, med'cine, rest'rant....

Is this any different? It may be. Omission works only if people agree to 
accept it.

As for 'nucular', is it a corruption of 'nuclear' or 'avuncular'? Some 
people's ts are very like ds. Uncle Adam could easily be Uncle Atom.

I think I'll lie down now.