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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Controversy over controversy

Why are people, at least here in Australia, pronouncing the word
controversy as contro-verse-y? It sounds so lazy or as if the people
who use it just don't know the correct pronunciation.
Trevor
  

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It depends what you mean by "the correct pronunciation" I suppose. There are all sorts of regional differences in pronunciation. html

  • It depends what you mean by "the correct pronunciation" I suppose.
  • There are all sorts of regional differences in pronunciation.
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It depends what you mean by "the correct pronunciation" I suppose. There are all sorts of regional differences in pronunciation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8305645/The-conTROversy-over-changing-pronunciati

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