dioceses pron. "diosees"

[David Bowie]

From:    sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>

> On NPR 3/30/06:  In a story about the liability for reparation to victims
> of clerical abuse  in various  US dioceses, the word "dioceses" was
> repeatedly pronounced  "diosees" (as if it had been blended with "see").
> I'm not sure that diocese and see are equivalent, but I doubt  if that was
> what was intended.

I wonder if this might be an extension of the irregular form
parenthesis->parentheses.

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