Pronunciation of 'Terrorism'.

[Mark Mandel]

I wrote:
> Hmmmm. It takes me four syllables, though some people probably hear them as
> three:
>
>      'tEr R Iz @m   (R = syllabic r)


"ANNE V. GILBERT" <avgilbert at PRODIGY.NET> writes:

>>>>>
Maybe the variation is regional.  I live in Seattle and tend to pronounce
it
in a way that kind of is between one and two r's.
<<<<<

I think we're talking about pretty much the same thing: "between one and
two r's" and "[spoken as] four syllables, [possibly heard as] three".

-- Mark

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