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Thanks to Bobby Brown, “prerogative” is one of the most mispronounced words in English — as you can hear in the video, Mr. Brown pronounces the word “PER-ogative.” (Click the audio icon on this page<\/A> for a correct pronunciation).<\/p>\n Britney Spears repeats the error:<\/p>\n \/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dIOH8Trfas4<\/p>\n A prerogative<\/A> is an exclusive right or privilege held by a person or group, or the exclusive right and power to command, decide, rule, or judge.<\/p>\n According to Thesaurus.com<\/a>:, “a privilege is a right that may be extended to a group or a number of people; a prerogative<\/em> is a right that, customarily, is vested in a single person.”<\/p>\n It is the boss’s prerogative<\/em> to determine the office supply budget.<\/p>\n While it is the prerogative<\/em> of pop stars to pronounce words however they like in their videos, it is the prerogative<\/em> of lexicographers to record the correct pronunciations of words in dictionaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The words warrant<\/a> and license<\/a> can be used in somewhat similar ways, although they are milder than prerogative<\/i>.<\/p>\n The anti-death penalty activist argued that violence is not a warrant<\/em> for future violence.<\/p>\n The pronunciation activist argued that fame does not give one license<\/em> to butcher the English language, even if slightly improving the nation’s collective vocabulary in the process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5cDLZqe735k Thanks to Bobby Brown, “prerogative” is one of the most mispronounced words in English — as you can hear in the video, Mr. Brown pronounces the word “PER-ogative.” (Click the audio icon on this page for a correct pronunciation). Britney Spears repeats the error: \/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dIOH8Trfas4 A prerogative is an exclusive right or privilege held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7247,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/7247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}