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H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.
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and make the word rhyme with
lark; in the United States it rhymes with
lurk. Finally, there is
lieutenant. The Englishman pronounces the first syllable
left; the American invariably makes it
loot. White says that the prevailing American pronunciation is relatively recent. “I never heard it,” he reports, “in my boyhood.”
32 He was born in New York in 1821.
