# Pronounciation of dagger

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciation-of-dagger/10598>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 17, 2000, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciation-of-dagger/10598 "2000-04-17T21:57:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2000, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciation-of-dagger/10598/21 "2000-04-19T00:16:00Z")

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Normally it wouldn’t bother me too much but I posted 'cause someone actually had trouble understanding a name I said: Hagger. I used the example of dagger 'cause that was the first -ag word I’ve had corrected.

Having standard enough pronounciation is, in my opinion, about as important as having standard spelling. Even if people can understand you if your spelling/pronounciation is creative or regional, it’s more comfortable for them if it’s not.

(Odd. I just had a fleeting deja vu feeling as I typed that last sentence. Must be a glitch in the Matrix.)

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``You’re just an empty cage girl if you kill the bird.’’ – Tori Amos.

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