I Give What I'm Asked For. Exactly.

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Another Desultory Post

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.

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