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leverage pronunciation
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2015/04/04 - 7:59am

I've been pronouncing it la-ever-age. And everyone I know pronounces it this way as well. One day I heard someone pronounce it lee-ver-age. I was wondering which pronouncation is correct or both ? To me the second pronunciation sounds odd. 

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2015/04/04 - 6:20pm

The root word is simetimes is pronounced leever instead of levver.  I think it's a UKGBNI pronunciation.  The folks who produce Vaseline and Ben & Jerry's ice cream pronounce it that way.  (Do you suppose they changed the name from Leveer Bothers to Unilever because one of them died?)

Someone probably maintains a list of words like lever and protein (pro-teen or pro-tea-un) which are pronounced differently.  Why would they do such a thing?  I don't know, but it's certainly a better hobby than what Ed Gein had, and let's not talk about my activities.  There comes a point where idiosyncracies become idiot-syncracies

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