Thread: Alacrity - how do you pronounce it?
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Old 01-24-2017, 03:06 PM
paulgiamatti paulgiamatti is offline
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My favorite British reshuffling of syllable emphasis is in "advertisement".

American: ADvertisement

British: edVERtissment

Although, in retrospect we Americans are the ones doing the reshuffling.