Anonymous wrote:Settle a debate: Is "broccoli" 2 syllables, or 3? And where did you grow up?

(I say 3 syllables, grew up in New England but with immigrant parents for whom English was not a first language)

Same. Massachusetts without immigrant parents.

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Anonymous wrote:I said 2 and I also pronounced Wednesday and caramel with two syllables and drawer with one. If I’m thinking about it, I do use pronounce all of the syllables for those words—it might depend on who I’m talking to or whether it’s in a phrase.

I’m with you on Wednesday and caramel and drawer, but my broccoli has 3 syllables.

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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.

There is no silent "o" in melancholy.

Silent e's are common. Silent o's are strange and more regional dialect.

Like opossum.

I'm so confused.

do you pronounce opossum, "oppsum?" or Melancholy, "melankly"??

Neither have silent o's. Neither does broccoli.

NP. Arguing that commonly used, dictionary given, pronunciations are "wrong" is stupid.

DP. What dictionary pronunciation gives opossum or melancholy as with a silent middle "o"? Are you able to cite this?

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Anonymous wrote:Sort of 2.5 - with a tiny pause at the ck sound. 3rd generation DC. I code switch though.

Yes haha the tiny pause!

Same here. Its more of an inflection

3 syllables - Italy
2 syllables if I'm speaking english - MD

Brock-a-lee
DC born and raised

Agree with PP 2.5 syllables.

I've lived far too many places to be considered "from somewhere" But mostly, 2 syllables.

3. From DC

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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.

There is no silent "o" in melancholy.

Silent e's are common. Silent o's are strange and more regional dialect.

Like opossum.

I'm so confused.

do you pronounce opossum, "oppsum?" or Melancholy, "melankly"??

Neither have silent o's. Neither does broccoli.

NP. Arguing that commonly used, dictionary given, pronunciations are "wrong" is stupid.

To be perceived as having erudition, I pronounce all the letters in all the words. o-pos-sum.

Of course, that trash dictionary Merriam-Webster gives both pronunciations for broccoli and opossum. I know that only one of those pronunciations is right and the other is for uneducated children. My suffering is great, Lord give me strength to endure these people.

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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?

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Anonymous wrote:I just said it out loud. I made the mouth movements for three, but it kind of sounded like two.

Me too. I’d have to count my syllables as something like 2 & 1/2…

Same. Kind of 2 1/2. Grew up in the western exurbs of Philadelphia.

Anonymous wrote:Sort of 2.5 - with a tiny pause at the ck sound. 3rd generation DC. I code switch though.

Yes haha the tiny pause!

3, 43 grew up on east coast.