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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When people put a qualifier with “unique”, which means one of a kind so it cannot be compared. It is incorrect to say very unique or a little unique or less unique.  It’s just unique.

Also forte is pronounced without the e, like fort. [/quote]

I thought it was pronounced "for-tay"[/quote]

Only by rubes or Italians. [/quote]

According to Merriam-Webster, both pronunciations are correct.[/quote]

DP. Yes, now both pronunciations are correct but that’s only because people so commonly mispronounced it as fort-ay for so many years that the incorrect pronunciation became accepted. This happens often…people mess up a word so much that it becomes the common parlance and is actually eventually accepted into the lexicon.[/quote]

They're saying "pianoforte," which is what pianos were first called. Then the term got shortened with frequent use.

It's like "motorcar." Use the whole thing now and you sound ridiculous.

"Fortay" = "loud"
"Fort" = "strength"

In all of the old Jane Austen movies by BBC they say “piano fortay” - so what say you about that?[/quote][/quote]

Forte existed before the pianoforte that. It means play louder than typical.[/quote]

Right, but in music lessons and in Jane Austen they don’t say “play this part fort” or “I can play the pianofort.” They say it “for-tay.”[/quote]

I say for-tay when it's included in sheet music. I say fort when talking about a strength. Well, actually I don't use fort at all anymore because I just get eyerolls or confused looks when I don't pronounce it for-tay.[/quote]

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