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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Is Grice Gricean?

I should tell J that I use "Grice-ian" (Griceian) rather than the more standard "Gricean" after J. Kennedy (Jason Kennedy) used it in this blog, and it stuck with me. Surely there is no need to MURDER a surname, and a fine one, such as

---- G R I C E

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by having it next to '-an', a rather ugly suffix (and yielding 'Grice-an', Gricean). Surely it's better manners to leave the sound of "Grice" as such /grais/ and THEN add an extra 'i', so that THEN you can add that ugly suffix, 'an'

G R I C E - I - AN

So I propose "Griceian" to be pronounced /graisian/

While "Gricean" is pronounced differently according to your idiolect (Palin pronounces it "Grishn").

--- (Would you like to play scrabble with Palin?)

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