589: Balcony Jul 19, 2016

Many times when new words enter a language, they are met with dislike and argumentation. A word that most of us regard as perfectly normal now was once thought of as wrong. 'Balcony' is from Italian, and when people began to use it more often in English with the pronunciation that is used, sticklers didn't like it. Those people referee the original Italian in which the final vowel was accented, not the 'a' which is accented in English.