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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That a "yamaka" and a yarmulke are the same thing. I just thought I had never seen "yamaka" written out.[/quote]
[b]Dh thought “epitome” was pronounced ep-ih-tohm, and didn’t realize it was the same word that we all pronounce as ee-pit-oh-me[/b].[/quote]

I had an English teacher who would praise us for mispronouncing words like that.  She said it was a sign that we were reading lots of challenging books :)[/quote]

That is such a sweet and face-saving correction I will remember.[/quote]
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You know that's .... not how you pronounce epitome?....
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It's [u]not [/u]ee- pit- oh- me

it's[I] uh- pi- tuh- Mee[/I][/quote]

You are correct for most of the US. In the Northeast, however, it is pronounced the way it is pronounced in the UK: eh-pi-toh-mee. Most of the country tends to have their vowels sound fairly similar, while the Northeast has more distinct vowel sounds. This is why, in most of the country, "epitome" has two schwa sounds in it, and why the vowel sounds in "Mary", "marry", and "merry" are the same, which is not the case in the Northeast.

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