anise

[Charles Doyle]

The OED records only the one pronunciation--with the first syllable stressed!

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:57:48 -0400
>From: Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at SUSSEX.AC.UK>
>Subject: Re: anise
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>She's using the standard British pronunciation, but 'aniseed' is pronounced the same as in AmE.
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>Similarly the Frenchified pronunciation of 'endive' is the usual BrE pronunciation (when they're not calling it 'chicory').
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>Lynne

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>--On Sunday, August 17, 2008 10:06 am -0400 Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
>wrote:
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>> A couple of days ago on the Food Network, Rachael Ray, more than once, pronounced "anise" as [@ 'nis], a pronunciation registered in none of the several English dictionaries at hand.
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>> At first I supposed it was just a pretentious faux-French affection, as I used to assume "endive" as ['an div] is--though that one is in the dictionaries, and it does mimic the actual French pronunciation.  But maybe [@ 'nis] exemplifies the "Uranus" ['jUr @ n at s] syndrome--an attempt to keep low-minded liteners from thinking about anuses?
>>
>> --Charlie
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