pronounced as DI-a-SPOR-ah by Nermeen Shaik on Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/15/iran_protests_sussan_tahmasebi (40:30) Merriam-Webster has only second-syllable accent https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diaspora ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org