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Related, one of my favourite jokes is to correct another person's pronunciation of pronunciation when they say to a third party "the correct pronunciation of <other word> is <foo>"

(Is pronunciation pronounced "pro-noun-see-ation" or "pro-nun-see-ation"?)

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Pro-nun-see-ay-shun

I had this discussion last week. I say the former because it's more consistent (nobody says "prenunced").

In good fun:

Every joke is funniest when it's explained, so:

It can be, I think, pronounced equally correctly either way. So, no matter what the first user of the word says, you can always say that they are incorrect; not only that, but in reference to another, different, word that they said.

It follows the same pattern as annunciation, renunciation, and denunciation.

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