For some reason people have terrible trouble with contractions, even newspeople and actors. I constantly hear people say cunnint, dinnent, and woonent. Why? It's not that hard. Other super popular mispronunciations are innanat, innaview, and many other words with an interior T like Atlanic, mennal illness, rennal, sennimennal, and dennal which is even slurred on toothpaste ads. Another popular mispro is iony instead of the correct I-ron-ee. But the most offensive mispronunciation of all is antiSemetic instead of the correct antiSemitic. Many Jews and Arabs were Semites not Semetes.
Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics.
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