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From: Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@*your-shoes*PlayNaked.com>
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Subject: Re: Confused...
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In article <i54fe.161301$Mo4.18363@blueberry.telenet-ops.be>,
"Jozef" <jozef.van.holsbeeck@pandora.be> wrote:
> Can somebody tell me the correct pronunciation of the word 'direction' ?
> Is it d&-'rek-sh&n or 'dI-rek-sh&n ? Or are both correct and is it simply
> a question of AmE or BrE ?
I think most common is duh-WRECK-shun although sometimes, for emphases,
DIE-WRECK-shun is used.
I don't know if the DI version is more BrE but, as an American, I tend
to associate that pronunciation that way -- as a narrator saying, in a
soft British accent, "and so they all moved -- quite carefully -- in
that general DI-rection."
John Cleese may be partially responsible for my association of that
pronunciation with the Brits.
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