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ask
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aunt
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NPR jarred me this morning using ignominy in a report. I had assumed the stress was on the second syllable, but the preferred pronunciation stresses the first.
I finally resolved how to say row. When it's a dispute, it rhymes with how. When it moves a boat, it's has a long 'O.'
Saying ask as "axe" would be a deal-breaker for me. Check, please!
Maybe it's a Boston thing in the USA, but my wife's family says "head-uck" (neither syllable accented). I find it quaint, and no, it doesn't give me one
There are a lot of similar lists on Wordie. Just search lists for "prounounce."
Vasectomy is divided between the 'a' and the 's.' It's painful just to think about.
Most of the USA says aunt like ant. I fit the small regional demographic that rhymes it with "want." And I do.
Yes, burntsox, from what I hear you're not alone in being unable to get your tongue around this one.
I don't know how to pronounce clitoris. Seinfeld suggests it rhymes with "Dolores."
I had no idea palm, or calm for that matter, were pronounced without voicing the "l." Yet that is quite established in some parts of the Unitd States.
My wife insists on pronouncing the "t" in often. This drives me crazy, but it's perfectly fine and accepted, though Bryan Garner disapproves.