The pronunciation/ˈboʊnə.faɪd/ is the most common one in the US and therefore listed first in American dictionaries, including American Heritage, Merriam-Webster, Webster's Third New International Dictionary, and the American version of Collins.[1]
But by the knots I am speaking of, may it please your reverences to believe, that I mean good, honest, devilish tight, hard knots, madebona fide, asObadiah made his;[…]
Let thinking people, then, judge what must be the fate of a church, whose fundamental doctrines are disbelieved by men of sense and inquiry, whose articles are well known not to be subscribedbonâ fide by those who officiate in it[…].
It is impossible to say how far this adherence to a creed is abona fide reversion to a devout habit of mind, and how far it is to be classed as a case of protective mimicry assumed for the purpose of an outward assimilation to canons of reputability borrowed from foreign ideals.
What intrigues us is what will happen when the ersatzes for the ersatzes come along. Will characters start substituting for actors,bona fide dogs for barking ladies; will people start looking at people again instead of television and at nature instead of at documentaries?
