Just outside our front door - one more type of lichen. And I'll give you Endnote One from a draft-but-for-circulation paper that I'm trying to complete tonight ...
1. You’re wondering how to pronounce that word? The preferred pronunciation in American English is /ˈlaɪken/ - sounds like “liken.” British English still acknowledges /ˈlɪtʃ(ə)n/ [rhymes with “kitchen]. This latter pronunciation is the only one given in Benjamin Smart’s Grammar of English Pronunciation (1810); by 1902, the Oxford English Dictionary was claiming that it was “rare in educated use.”
Glad to have cleared that one up for you ...
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