WOMEN PAUL, WOMEN!

On Sunday tonight Dr Paul Callister (I knew him in Wellington in the 70's) was talking about changing roles in society and talked about 'woman' in the plural. He meant women. He might have thought that he was speaking in the plural and, if he was writing a thesis would have spelled the word correctly but he pronounced it incorrectly.

Big deal?

Yes, to me.

I get pissed off with journalists, media commentators and even, as above, experts, mispronouncing such a fundamental word. Women.

They don't have to say 'wimmin' as this conjures up a totally different image:

..... but they do need to differentiate between woman:

woo m-uh n

and women:

wim-in

See here for a pronunciation guide:

MAN vs WOMAN

OK, the guy is a bit of a pedantic git but he at least gets the pronuncuiation right.

 Pictorially here is woman:

and here are women:

And, for those of a different persuasion here are wimmin: