Not “per-scrip-tion”! Dang!
:mad:
Peace,
mangeorge
I generally take the lazy route and just call it a 'scrip. 
Three syllables? You were lucky. We had to make do with two. Not just any old two, but “scrip-shun”, we’d say. And we were grateful for it.
(Non-Python addition - yes, here it’s at most "p’scrip-shun’. Is that right or wrong, in your assessment? 
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Yeah, I know, and you had to walk five miles uphill through deep snow just to get it filled.
Snow? You were lucky!
(Oh, please God, don’t let it start. Everyone ignore me. Even play Mornington Crescent if necessary.)
The plural of “test” - it’s “tests,” not “testes.” :eek:
“Perscription” is closer than “subscription,” at any rate. :rolleyes:
But they say it wrong on tv! No surprise there, but I hear in ads for drugs.
Don’t get me wrong, I love slang and colloquialisms. But when it’s (semi-) formal, it should be right. People (kids) learn from exposure. Casual speak should be a second language.
When I say “colloquialism” I mean like hip hop, not only regional.
Talk about an apropos username. 
If there’s a ‘right’, then there’s also a ‘wrong’? Those of use who do not say ‘pre-scrip-tion’ are wrong? All of us?
Regional dialect coming through, I think–but whose region?
I hail from Toronto and I say “pre-scrip-tion”.
I tell the pharmacist to gimme my shit, man, I got bugs crawlin’ all over my tonsils!
Yes, you are. every one of you. Those who say “ain’t” are wrong, even though the word is now “in the dictionary”.
I’m dating (no, not in that way) myself, ain’t I?
Here is Chicago it’s “perscription”.
Yes, I must admit, I pronounce it that way, myself. It would take a major effort to pronounce it the “right” way.
Those yummy chocolate and peanutbutter confections are pronounced Ree sez not REE *seez *. I’m not sure why some people have the need to mispronounce it as if it rhymes with “feces” but it doesn’t, so stop it now.
And the thing that your camera produces is a * Pic * cher. NOT a !$%* * Pit * cher. Arrrrrrgh! I can usually control my urge to be the word Nazi, but in this case all bets are off.
Another correct “pre-scrip-tion” vote from Canada.
Now I think I’ll go have my bowl of cold poison, kill the kids, and dance about on their graves singing “Hallelujah.”
I have to make a special effort to SPELL it correctly, since “it isn’t spelled like it sounds”!
There you go!
Are you a lawyer? :dubious: