SAY IT

I confess I am a word person. I love words!

I used to enjoy an article, I think it was Reader's Digest, but perhaps not.

Anyway, the article dealt with most commonly mispronounced words.

There is one in particular that drives me nuts.

The sad thing is that the people that mispronounce it are in fact in the profession.

The word is REALTOR.

It is pronounced REAL TOR

It is not REAL A TOR

I think the confusion may come from real e state so they say real e tor.

I think in the last five years, I have heard at least five times, teachers in CE classes try to educated the professionals in how to pronounce their association title.

We work very hard and pay a lot of money for the title REALTOR.

So let's all try to make the attempt to sound as intelligent as I know we are and say it correctly.

Two syllables.

REAL TOR 

When we get that conquered we will move on to other words.

Perhaps Fiscal or Specific.