Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law

Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by cfcfcf on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:11PM (#29302325)

Is the American pronunciation of “processes” (as in, rhymes with bees) also a hypercorrection?

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by dragonwriter on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:29AM (#29304518)

I’m not sure if it is real hypercorrection (or even attempted correction) or a conscious adoption of an available model pronunciation of plural nouns with similar spelling as a tool to distinguish the plural noun from the verb.

Though, in either case, it has the danger of suggesting the plural form of the hypothetical word “processee” (from processor, and by analogy to pairs like lessor/lessee), so, “things that are processed”.

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by gorgoiler on Monday November 22, 2021 @02:22AM (#29303747)

The “hypercorrection” being to use the same long plural e from axis/axes with process/processes?

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by Izkata on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:52PM (#29302528)

> American pronunciation

..since when? I don't think I've ever heard "processees" before...

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by monocasa on Sunday November 21, 2021 @11:05PM (#29302590)

I hear it maybe 20% of the time.

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by talaketu on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:10AM (#29302988)

listen to the sentence Psaki utters at about 66s in: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1448740969726156800

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by grzm on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:54PM (#29302537)

I've heard both used in the US.

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