How do Americans pronounce "Privacy"

[xanis]

pry-vah-see

 

[OverVolt]

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 teching some kind of fast-food way to read that produces better test results in short-term;but is abysmal in the long run.

Dude they don't even teach cursive anymore, use your 1910 era smarts to figure it out :awe:

 

[Pardus]

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=privacy&submit=Submit

 

[glenn1]

I have fun saying:

AL-u-MI-nee-um (UK)

vs

a-LU-mi-num (US)

Don't forget "SHED-you-ull" instead of schedule. At least they don't say "sholar" rather than "scholar" or "shool" rather than "school."

 

[Leyawiin]

Yeah, but the recent ghetto-fication of "st" has added a "h" sound to many common words among people younger than 30 or so in the US:

shtreet
shtrong
shtraight

Pronunciations keep changing.

 

[Oyeve]

UK speak sounds so girly.

 

[ControlD]

I have fun saying:

AL-u-MI-nee-um (UK)

vs

a-LU-mi-num (US)

But at least in this case the actual spelling is different as well.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

We've never heard of that word.

I had to Google it. Apparently there are some places where things you do aren't known by anyone except you. What an utterly abhorrent concept. What if I should slip in the shower while masturbating to internet porn? Google or the NSA can send someone round in no time to make sure I'm OK. With this "privacy" thing, I could be dead for weeks before the wife found me.

No, I'll have none of that, thank you very much.

 

[Puppies04]

PREEE-VACY - British PREYE-VASY - American

Bullshit. Absolute bullshit

i always thought the uk version was more if the 'i' like 'in'. prih-vacy whereas we americans say pry-vacy

Correct.

Although we would not bat an eyelid at pronouncing it pr-eye-vacy either. Both work here.

 

[zinfamous]

pre-YOU-vuh-see

 

[Aikouka]

They say PREEVACY in UK? lol.

Is lone 'i' in American English ever pronounced as EE?

I've heard it pronounced prih-va-see. I've also heard root-er instead of r(ow)-ter for the word router.

 

[T9D]

We don't. That word doesn't exist here anymore. The government and NSA made sure of that.

 

[Broheim]

I prefer the English pronunciation, sounds more refined in my ears for some reason.

 

[schmuckley]

Dude they don't even teach cursive anymore, use your 1910 era smarts to figure it out :awe:

10th grade in 1910 was equivalent to bachelor's degree today.

 

[SKORPI0]

10th grade in 1910 was equivalent to bachelor's degree today.

masters will then be useless in the near future. ^_^

 

[digiram]

Do bri-ish say preevate as well?

 

[Lifted]

prih-vuhhhh-see