Broccoli - how many syllables? Where are you from?

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I've pronounced it with two and three syllables at times. -DC born and raised.

[Anonymous]

this thread is astonishing. i have never heard of anyone calling it 'brock-lee' except dh's very new jersey dad.

[Anonymous]

"Some kind of bush"---a 90+ year old gentleman after a stretch in a nursing home describing the food they served there and one vegetable he was not familiar with. He's a rural bachelor used to cooking a piece of meat, a potato, and opening up a can of green beans, peas, or corn.

[Anonymous]

in Georgia -- I say "brock - lee"

[Anonymous]

Ask Dana:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brock-a-lee
DC born and raised

Same same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Question for 2-syllable people. What others words do you know of that have a silent "o" in the middle of a word?

Melancholy

Wednesday is similar.

And some people pronounce nucular as nuclear.

Wednesday is NOT similar. Nobody in the world pronounces Wednesday with 3 syllables.

I think you got your nucular and nuclear around the wrong way. The actual word is nuclear. Some Americans pronounce it as nucular. How did that happen?

Cuz we’re gonna “nuke ya Larla”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this thread is astonishing. i have never heard of anyone calling it 'brock-lee' except dh's very new jersey dad.

Where are you from?

[Anonymous]

The more you eat it, the faster you say it. Brock-lee.

[Anonymous]

The second o is usually glossed over and pronunciation minimized in the transition from the emphasized first syllable ending in the hard c sound to the de emphasized last syllable, starting with the softer L sound. This is assuming that someone is speaking naturally.

I would have a hard time deciphering whether someone was pronouncing 3 syllables or 2 unless they overemphasize the o (3 syllables) or pronounce the hard c at the start of the second syllable (bra-klee- 2 syllables). Pronouncing the hard c at the end of the first syllable gives a bit of a “trip” into the last syllable that gives 3 syllable energy even if the o is “silent.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The second o is usually glossed over and pronunciation minimized in the transition from the emphasized first syllable ending in the hard c sound to the de emphasized last syllable, starting with the softer L sound. This is assuming that someone is speaking naturally.

I would have a hard time deciphering whether someone was pronouncing 3 syllables or 2 unless they overemphasize the o (3 syllables) or pronounce the hard c at the start of the second syllable (bra-klee- 2 syllables). Pronouncing the hard c at the end of the first syllable gives a bit of a “trip” into the last syllable that gives 3 syllable energy even if the o is “silent.”

👆🏼 there’s just no way the middle syllable is perceptible when I’m speaking in a natural, fluid fashion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this thread is astonishing. i have never heard of anyone calling it 'brock-lee' except dh's very new jersey dad.

Where are you from?

NYC and London.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ask Dana:

That song was his SNL audition too!

[Anonymous]

2 - I'm a military brat and spent my childhood years in New England and the Midwest.

[Anonymous]

2.5 - brocka-lee.
But not brock-o-lee like three-o-clock.

Also caramel is three syllables unless you're talking about apples, in which case it's two.

- California