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nicoburns · 2021-06-04 15:40:46

Huh, and I've been pronouncing that ordinance. I guess those two words are pretty similar.

a-robinson | karma 159 | avg karma 4.82 · | 2015-07-21 21:21:28

Yes, that's how it's pronounced.

look_lookatme | karma 2252 | avg karma 3.28 · | 2011-03-14 01:56:51+00:00

Thank you. That's how I've been pronouncing it.

ericd | karma 12063 | avg karma 2.38 · | 2021-04-08 14:57:47+00:00

Pretty sure that's how it's already supposed to be pronounced.

hot_gril | karma 4539 | avg karma 1.17 · | 2024-06-25 21:15:45

And I pronounce it "oath" in my head, as in, I'm gonna utter a lot of oaths trying to use it.

madeofpalk | karma 21444 | avg karma 3.75 · | 2014-04-18 13:21:57

I think I'm going to adopt this new pronounciation.

jdfellow | karma 241 | avg karma 2.32 · | 2016-04-16 00:23:42

Am I the only one pronouncing this as "arson light"?

jefftk | karma 22506 | avg karma 4.92 · | 2021-08-27 15:46:59

That's also my pronunciation of the two terms, and I'm from the US (Boston area)

ta8645 | karma 1600 | avg karma 2.71 · | 2021-02-18 17:12:18

That sounds the same to my ear. At least the way I pronounce both words. c-awe-ck and b-awe-ttom.

kwk1 | karma 581 | avg karma 3.63 · | 2021-01-12 06:37:07+00:00

That is how I pronounce it.

raganwald | karma 45001 | avg karma 9.17 · | 2011-02-18 05:34:23

I pronounce it that way in speech.

axaxs | karma 7169 | avg karma 3.91 · | 2021-04-17 06:26:15+00:00

That's how I pronounced it initially, and I'm sticking to it also.

kennethrc | karma 171 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2023-02-23 22:55:43

Huh. Been pronouncing it in my head as "dang!" (like the "expletive") all this time

disposablex | karma 35 | avg karma 4.38 · | 2021-07-05 04:28:24+00:00

isn't it already pronounced?

donretag | karma 2705 | avg karma 3.48 · | 2017-04-27 15:55:49+00:00

I have been pronouncing it the same way 1010WINS pronounces it. Traffic updates decades before Waze!

Taywee | karma 2279 | avg karma 4.76 · | 2022-05-25 07:51:00

Both are pronounced identically in American English at least.

nv-vn | karma 1961 | avg karma 2.69 · | 2015-11-10 23:50:08+00:00

Interesting. The most common pronunciation I've heard was something like "deeTROIT".

JumpCrisscross | karma 145242 | avg karma 4.56 · | 2020-06-25 13:56:02+00:00

> Do people pronounce that in speech?

I've heard it frequently in politics. (It's also an acceptable Scrabble word.) Pronounced the same way it is in the word agriculture.

CRConrad | karma 2469 | avg karma 0.51 · | 2022-01-05 02:59:46

> the obligatory "law rand order".

I've always "read" that in my mind as "lawr and order". (Yes, it is of course hard to tell, since it's pronounced "lawranawrder".)

zabana | karma 1513 | avg karma 3.37 · | 2023-07-06 14:29:55

yeah that's exactly how it's pronounced :)