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Guest Posted 22 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Pronounciation of COMFORTABLE?

Hoping this might be the right place to help settle an arguement about the pronounciation of COMFORTABLE.

Is it - Comftabal - the way we ALL seem to say it!

or Comfort-A-ble - with clear use of the 'A'


Hope I have explained that well.


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Top answer

Personally I say it comf-ter-ble. I'm guessing you're from Britain, but I guess mine would be the American equivalent of the way you say it

— Jcp9

  • Personally I say it comf-ter-ble.
  • I'm guessing you're from Britain, but I guess mine would be the American equivalent of the way you say it
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Personally I say it comf-ter-ble. I'm guessing you're from Britain, but I guess mine would be the American equivalent of the way you say it
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as for the word "Comfortable", I can understand saying it "comf'TAble' to shorten it a bit; but not 'comfTERble', because if you really look closely at the word in its syllables, the 'r' comes BEFORE the 't', not AFTER.
There.
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Hi,

I am with the "ter" crowd.

Comfortable.

(***'f?r-t?-b?l, kumf't?b?l, kumf't?r)

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2003 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

MountainHiker
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Really, those pronounciations vary only slightly, and in fast speech the difference will probably not even be noticed.

Personally, I say "Cumftable"
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