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[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]

That is how language develops[/quote]

Now one would sound like a pretentious tw@t insisting upon the French pronunciation.[/quote]

Nasty comment but back when I was young and dinosaurs roamed the earth, we were taught that pronouncing anything in it's foreign pronunciation was wrong. Thus fort vs fortay. [/quote]

I say for-tay, yet what really sticks in my craw is when people say "foy-YAY" instead of "FOY-yer" for their home's entryway. So pretentious!! Figure that one out for me. [/quote]

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