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1:58 AM
Wiktionary entry for fidelity lists both /fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/, /faɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti/. Is one of them prevalent in American/British English, or are both of them common?
 
 
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AIQ
6:22 AM
The interviewer asks "What is your thoughts on that?"
@6:05 I am not trying to be a ----, but I can't ignore this haha.
 
AIQ
6:41 AM
Wait is that in any way correct?
 
 
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Anonymous
8:37 AM
@MartinSleziak The former is the usual pronunciation on both sides of the pond.
 
Anonymous
@AIQ The speaker would probably consider that a production error and go back and correct it if it weren't spontaneous speech.
 
The fight itself is an MGM Grand production error if the winner doesn't beat AJ
imho
@MartinSleziak thanks for rekindling my interest in Berkeley's Infidel Mathematician :-)
 
 
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11:24 AM
@AIQ Have you heard him (the guy being interviewed) speak? He made quite a few errors upon more careful listening, but it almost doesn't even register when just trying to hear what he has to say about the fight.
 
11:45 AM
@snailcar Although the word seems quite ordinary to me (it's not an everyday word, but it's not unheard of at all), Collins COBUILD's Word Frequency chart thingy says it's used "rarely". The LDOCE, Oxford, etc., appear to label it as belonging to BrE, although I never made any such connection. Google Books Ngram Viewer chart shows the word occurs twice as frequently in books published in the UK, although I'm not sure whether that's enough to warrant such a label.
I also checked GloWbE, which paints an entirely different picture, but I'm too lazy to hunt down and verify those quotes. I don't know if I can trust GloWbE, even with major trends. It's always comments on random blogs that're included on GloWbE's context page.
For comparison, I also looked up foofaraw using GBNV, which is labeled as rare in the Collins (British) English dictionary, but just as slang in the AmE version.
I would say foofaraw is a little more uncommon than kerfuffle, but again, not unheard of.
Foofaraw does sound regional to me, and I'm not surprised it's not included in dictionaries for learners of English.
There might be some bias towards BrE in these dictionaries for learners. Donnybrook's also not included, for instance, even though, at least in AmE, it occurs more frequently than kerfuffle (in BrE), according to GBNV.
 
12:12 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, link at end of answer (146): Should I say "taking the assignment" or "doing the assignment"? by Aish Aishly on ell.SE
 
Maybe they think it's too informal a word to include it, or something. They have mandem, though, which barely makes a blip on the GBNV chart (man, even that stupid acronym is too long).
 
 
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7:33 PM
@userr2684291 Google Books Naval Vessel?
 
 
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AIQ
9:35 PM
@userr2684291 I did, yes. He makes a lot of errors when he talks (I have seen other press conferences) - honestly, it does not surprise me even a little even though he is an American. It would surprise me if it were the other guy (Fury) or Joshua.
 
10:25 PM
Not sure what you mean, tbh. It's performance errors I'm referring to, or rather mistakes in speech we make when we're sort of under pressure to speak.
I'd expect them from anyone.
 

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