Submitted by Hairy Scot on January 1, 2013  Preferred forms
What would be the preferred form of each of these:-   a) “in
hopes of” or “in the hope of”   b) “a change in plans” or “a
change of plan”  c) “apprise” or “inform”   d) “envision” or
“envisage”  I favour the second of each of the above, but no
doubt there will be different opinions.   Sort by  Anwulf - In
fact I said that Americans retain the old-fashioned
pronunciation of 'solder' as 'soda'. 'Soldier' would indeed have
formerly been pronounced 'sojer' - by all classes.  0 vote Vote!
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That a word like apprise Is not a word that I apprize It cannot
be otherwise  Apprise is in the "The Dictionary of Worthless
Words: 3,000 Words to Stop Using Now"  @Skeeter ... As a former
Soldier, I'v never heard it said as 'soda' ... It may be heard
as sojer, soljer, or even soldjer. My guess ... and it's only a
guess ... is that the i = j sound may come from the time with
i/j were the same letter and/or si