I've always assumed "caricature" should be pronounced with a slight emphasis on the first syllable, but yesterday on YouTube I heard an English-speaking professor of a leading British university pronounce it with a distinct emphasis on the second syllable: "caRICature". Now I'm confused and don't know what it right!
EffiCAXity... Such a 'cacacious' turn of the phrase, no? If I am permitted such a neologism.
ReplyDeleteI've always assumed "caricature" should be pronounced with a slight emphasis on the first syllable, but yesterday on YouTube I heard an English-speaking professor of a leading British university pronounce it with a distinct emphasis on the second syllable: "caRICature". Now I'm confused and don't know what it right!
ReplyDeletePerhaps a "caricature" of an English Professor?
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