[Ads-l] Heard, _despicable_ pronounced as
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 11 00:10:39 UTC 2017
"DESSpicable" by a random resident of Wichita, Kansas.
This is still the preferred pronunciation for MW, Dictionary.com, and this
correspondent, but its existence is not even acknowledged by Google
Dictionary.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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