589: Balcony Jul 19, 2016
Many times when new words enter a language, they are met with dislike
and argumentation. A word that most of us regard as perfectly normal now
was once thought of as wrong. 'Balcony' is from Italian, and when
people began to use it more often in English with the pronunciation that
is used, sticklers didn't like it. Those people referee the original
Italian in which the final vowel was accented, not the 'a' which is
accented in English.
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