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Originally Posted by Hali87
RES-pra-tory.
Although usually it's more like "res-PEE-ra- wait. RES-pe-ra-to..ry." It's not a word that comes up very often. I usually have to consciously think it through whenever I say it. Same with "Caribbean".
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I tend to bounce back and forth between "Car-IB-bee-an" and "Care-ih-BEE-an.
When I lived in India, I remember being surprised to hear people refer to the mountains as the "Hih-MAL-yas" rather than the "Hih-Mah-LAY-yas" that most Canadians would use. Although Indian English would be a thread all its own.