# Pronunciation Poll: How do YOU say …

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-poll-how-do-you-say/334233>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 5, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-poll-how-do-you-say/334233 "2005-12-05T20:26:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![jebert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jebert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jebert)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-poll-how-do-you-say/334233/41 "2005-12-08T03:08:42Z")

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Surely most of you who gave your pronunciation of “processes” as either

PRO sess ez or PRO sess eez

meant that first syllable to rhyme with “bra” or “rah” rather than “crow”, did you not? If I’m not mistaken, PRAH sess is the norm in the US, while PRO sess is common in Canada.

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**Author:** ![jebert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jebert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jebert)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-poll-how-do-you-say/334233/42 "2005-12-08T03:12:48Z")

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Another one I heard on TV today:

fructose: FROOK tose or FRUCK tose?

Until today I had always heard (and used myself) the former.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-poll-how-do-you-say/334233/43 "2005-12-08T03:21:10Z")

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> [@LoganDear](#):
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> di - VYE - sive
> 
> AHM - ij
> 
> NYE - jer
> 
> to-MAY-toe
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> SKEDJ-yule
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> JEN-yoo-in
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> VER-suh-tile

Jesus Christ, you guys really suck at spelling.

I keed! I keed!

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**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciation-poll-how-do-you-say/334233/44 "2005-12-08T04:25:58Z")

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> [@LoganDear](#):
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> Oregano: or-AY-gano (Brit friends: “oreg-AH-no”)  
> Aluminum: al-OO-minum (Brit friends: “aloo-MIN-yum”)

That’s so interesting since all the americans I know pronounce Oregano as ‘O-reg-AH-no’ (i’ll cite William Shatner in Star Trek: Generations as an example) whereas all the Brits and Aussies I know pronounce it as Orr-eee-gah-no. I’m in the latter category.

Aluminium - Al-Oh-Min-ee-um for Aussies and Brits, A-Lew-min-um for Americans.

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