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HJB49 | 11:50 Tue 02nd Jan 2024 | Crosswords
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Old times crossword clue "Girl's radical pronouncement" answer is Ethel but Why?

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It is a chemical term, albeit with the American pronunciation.

An ethyl radical is the group C2H5. 

We trend to pronounce it as "ee-thile", rather than "eth -ill"

We do say ethylene to sound like Ethel even though

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