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How do Americans pronounce "Privacy"

Berryracer

Berryracer

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I learned the American English in school but I am confused,

how do americans pronounce "Privacy"?

Is it pronounced as: PREEEVACY or PR-EYE-VASY?
 
i always thought the uk version was more if the 'i' like 'in'.

prih-vacy

whereas we americans say pry-vacy
 
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KidNiki1 said:
i always thought the uk version was more if the 'i' like 'in'.
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That's how I've always heard it from Brits. It's pronounced IVE as in give.

As per dapper wolf above, yes colour has a "U". So does favourite and neighbour. Americans are just lazy spellers.
 
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KidNiki1 said:
i always thought the uk version was more if the 'i' like 'in'.

prih-vacy

whereas we americans say pry-vacy
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This.
I'm on the phone with people in London on a daily basis and this word comes up all the time (at least a dozen times per call). They pronounce it prih-vacy whereas I pronounce it pry-vacy.
 
berryracer said:
I learned the American English in school but I am confused,

how do americans pronounce "Privacy"?

Is it pronounced as: PREEEVACY or PR-EYE-VASY?
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prī-və-sē In case you know how to read dictionary phonetics.
Being they're not teaching phonetics in the schools anymore,maybe not.
They've switched to teaching some kind of fast-food way to read that produces better test results in short-term;but is abysmal in the long run.
 
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Some of the more annoying things about american english are:

sulfur vs. sulphur... seriously? the ph is that hard to pronounce?
aluminum vs aluminium

When I first got to this country I really believed I'd misspelled aluminium all my life and it really was aluminum...
 
nixium said:
Some of the more annoying things about american english are:

sulfur vs. sulphur... seriously? the ph is that hard to pronounce?
aluminum vs aluminium

When I first got to this country I really believed I'd misspelled aluminium all my life and it really was aluminum...
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The bottom line is that the English (UK) pronounce words correctly nearly every time. American's do not.

Privacy and Aluminium are two great examples
 
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