consult = 'consultation'

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/5/2014 09:10 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>The staff at my health-care provider's in Boston pronounce this as
>"c'n-SULT," whether used as noun or as verb. AFAIK, it's pronounced
>"CON-sult," as I would expect, everywhere else, even elsewhere in greater
>Boston.

I can speak for somewhere else in Boston, where it's
"CON-sult".  Moi.  But then again, I learned to speak in NYC.  As for
hearing, if I had heard "c'n-SULT", I would have noticed.

Joel

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