I see this occasionally and hear this more often.<\/p>\n
Problem:<\/strong> Explanation:<\/strong> Given that the first “p” in “suppress” is not usually pronounced, I believe that many American English speakers do not realize that “suppress” is spelled with two “p”s.<\/p>\n However, given the tendency by some speakers to add an “r” to “uh” sounds — as in “idea” pronounced “idear”, or as in “Usher” pronounced “Ursher” — it is not surprising to me that “suppress” can become “supress” instead.<\/p>\n The verb “surprise” is yet another source of interference.<\/p>\n For fun, I searched Google for each of the following words (without the quotation marks) and got about the indicated numbers of matches:<\/p>\n This tells me that Web authors have written the word correctly<\/em> vs. incorrectly<\/em> by a ratio of 152:1, which is very good but not excellent.<\/p>\n Solution:<\/strong> I see this occasionally and hear this more often. Problem: This is a misspelling or mispronunciation of a verb. Explanation: “Surpress” — spelled S-U-R-P-R-E-S-S — is a mispelling or mispronunciation of the verb “suppress”, which is spelled S-U-P-P-R-E-S-S. Given that the first “p” in “suppress” is not usually pronounced, I believe that many American English…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26,22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-english-blunders","category-mispronunciations","category-misspellings","category-verbs"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThis is a misspelling or mispronunciation of a verb.<\/p>\n
\n“Surpress” — spelled S-U-R-P-R-E-S-S — is a mispelling or mispronunciation of the verb “suppress”, which is spelled S-U-P-P-R-E-S-S.<\/p>\n\n
\n“Suppress”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"