Who do people with lazy tongues insist on placing the way they say words into the dictionary?

Question

Words such as Bastardisation, Bastard-i-sa-tion. whilst the simple lazy tounge would round it up into Barstardisation... then put it in the damn dictionary. Certainly words ending with '-isation' are where the common mistake is, though there certainly a large number of others.
There should only be one way of saying a word and that word being the word in the dictionary - this bastardisation of the ENGLISH dictionary rather idiotic and pointless.

Sorry for the typos by the way.

Answer 1

what? what are you trying to say?

"Words such as Bastardisation, Bastard-i-sa-tion. whilst the simple lazy tounge would round it up into Barstardisation... then put it in the damn dictionary. " ...what's the difference save the typo?

Answer 2

English is spoken with many different dialects around the world. Often words are pronounced differently, in different places, which is absolutely fine. What a boring world it would be if we were all the same.

And the dictionary is only a book .... written by people ..... and a dictionary written today looks very different from one written 50 years ago because the English language is constantly evolving and changing. I really don't understand the problem or issue.

Answer 3

I think you have misunderstood the point of a dictionary. Dictionaries mostly DESCRIBE words as they are spoken and what they are used to mean. Some people (such as yourself, I guess) would like to PRESCRIBE how words should be used or pronounced.

There is a similar misunderstanding of the 'rules' of grammar by many non-linguists, too. The 'rules' of grammar are basically descriptive of how a language is spoken. They are thus rules more like the laws of physics than those of a legal system - i.e. based on observatio of the real world rather than what someone thinks should be.

Answer 4

I disagree with you that there should be only one way to say a word. It must be pretty clear to you that there are pronunciation differences between the dialects of English, for example. That doesn't mean one pronunciation is better than any other; they're just different.

Answer 5

Is this question just an excuse to say 'bastardisation' a lot?