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29 Aug 2008, 10:22 pm

In this one someone give an example of a word that could be pronounced different ways like this:

Carmel : care-uh-mel or Cahrmuhl

I would choose Cahrmuhl.

Aluminum: al-you-minnie-um or Uh-loumin-uhm

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29 Aug 2008, 10:34 pm

There's only a finite set of words of this kind, unless we could invent bogus pronunciations.

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29 Aug 2008, 10:36 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

There's only a finite set of words of this kind, unless we could invent bogus pronunciations.

Yes, but there are words like this out there.

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30 Aug 2008, 3:16 am

~~you say tom-ay-toe,
I say toma-aut(ism)-too ~~!

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30 Aug 2008, 11:02 am

Never mind. I guess this was a bad idea.

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04 Sep 2008, 12:19 am

actually there is no limit to this kind of word so long as you use regional pronunciations.

It really irritates me that canadians say "a tall" instead of "at all." Funny thing is, I had a dream the other night where I kept saying "a tall"

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26 Apr 2011, 1:18 am

Triangular_Trees wrote:

I must have missed that pronunciation lesson in English class...I am Canadian and I say "at all"

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