This word is very frequently pronounced, even by persons in official positions, as though it were a dactyl.
1833. [He] had the misfortune to say in’-quiry, deciss’ive, adver’tiss, and dif-fic’ult.—John Neal, ‘The Down-Easters,’ i. 44.
1883. I heard in America ‘ópponent’ and ‘ínquiry,’ and very odd they sounded.—E. A. Freeman, ‘Impressions of the U.S.,’ p. 78.
*** See also Appendix XXV.
