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I had been going to ask:

Dee-salt-ore-ee (how I've always pronounced it)

or

Dessul-tory (how I heard it on the radio yesterday)

But a quick google reveals - via the embedded sound file - that I Am Wrong.

[livejournal.com profile] bugshaw long since set me straight on how to say 'scenic' and 'topiary'. I wonder what other words I think I know the pronunciation of, but don't?

MC

Date: 2005-07-30 05:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com
Hmm - there are very idiosyncratic ways of pronouncing certain difficult words ... like oh-ee-sar-fay-gus ... and then there are reasonably common variations, like dee-salt-ore-ee :-)

How do you pronounce, meringue? :-)

Date: 2005-07-30 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com
To rhyme with boomerang!

Date: 2005-07-30 06:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fjm.livejournal.com
"petard"--I put the wrong emphasis on that one for three decades.

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