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macabre |
(adj): shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
(adj): vs. unalarming) -- (frightening because of an awareness of danger
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The OED gives the two pronunciations /məˈkɑːbrə/ and /məˈkɑːb/ in that order for BrE, and the AmE equivalents in the same order. This seems to me to miss the natural third possibility, /məˈkɑːbə/, but I assume they've done some sort of quantitative research and found that few people pronounce it that way. I doubt that many people 'mispronounce' it.
I can't think of many words that are as often mispronounced as this one.
Sounds like mu(h)-carb in Australia.
Somehow it sounds more enigmatic to pronounce it "-cawb."
We won't tell anyone. ;-)
It's one of those words I never say aloud. But I always assumed it was pronounced "MAC uh bree." Hmm, maybe I shouldn't be admitting that here. ;-)
I'm a big fan of it's when pronounced "muh-cawb" vs. "mu-ca-bruh".
The implied "re" on the end really sings to me.