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Xenophobia

According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English , "xenophobia" has four standard pronouciations. Does any other word do better, or even equal?
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[nq:1]According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English , "xenophobia" has four standard pronouciations. [/nq] Nucyular.

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  • [/nq] Nucyular.
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[nq:1]According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English , "xenophobia" has four standard pronouciations. Does any other word do better, or even equal?[/nq]
Nucyular.
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[nq:2]According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English , "xenophobia" has four standard pronouciations. Does any other word do better, or even equal?[/nq]
[nq:1]Nucyular.[/nq]
Allowing for "fairly standard dialects", I can think of at least four for "February".

Cheers, Harvey
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[nq:1]According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English , "xenophobia" has four standard pronouciations. Does any other word do better, or even equal?[/nq]
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John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:1]According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English , "xenophobia" has four standard pronouciations. Does any other word do better, or even equal?[/nq]
It has only one correct pronunciation, zennofobia. Not four, one. I hate ****** foreigners, especially Frenchies and Krauts, Yanks brandishing their no-good dictionaries, Ossies beating us at cricket, and softies from the Home **
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Richard Chambers filted:
[nq:1]It has only one correct pronunciation, zennofobia. Not four, one. I hate ****** foreigners, especially Frenchies and Krauts, Yanks brandishing ... my little corner of England and three times out of four can't even pronounce a simple word like this properly.[/nq]
And the award for best unprovoked self-referential post in a pronunciation thread goes to..
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[nq:1]According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English , "xenophobia" has four standard pronouciations. Does any other word do better, or even equal?[/nq]
What are they?
Does anyone say "ksennophobia" in English? I've seen the name Xenia transliterated as "Ksenia".

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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[nq:2]According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English , "xenophobia" has four standard pronouciations. Does any other word do better, or even equal?[/nq]
[nq:1]What are they?[/nq]
The article in question, at
http://www.bartleby.com/68/0/6600.html
says, "There are four Standard pronuncia
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[nq:2]According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English , "xenophobia" has four standard pronouciations. Does any other word do better, or even equal?[/nq]
[nq:1]What are they?[/nq]
They say: "There are four Standard pronunciations of xenophobia: ZEN-o-FO-bee-(y)uh, ZEEN-o-FO-bee-(y)uh, ZEN-uh-FO-bee-(y)uh, or ZEEN-uh-FO-bee-(y)uh."
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

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[nq:2]According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English , "xenophobia" has four standard pronouciations. Does any other word do better, or even equal?[/nq]
[nq:1]It has only one correct pronunciation, zennofobia. Not four, one. I hate ****** foreigners, especially Frenchies and Krauts, Yanks brandishing ... and three times out of four can't even pronounce a simple word like this pro
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[nq:1]The article in question, at http://www.bartleby.com/68/0/6600.html says, "There are four Standard pronunciations of xenophobia: ZEN-o-*FO* bee(y)uh, ZEEN-o-*FO*bee(y)uh, ZEN-uh-*FO*bee(y)uh, or ZEEN-uh-*FO*bee(y)uh. " I take that to be representing **** pronunciatio

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