"MaryL" > wrote in message
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> "Doris Night" wrote in message
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> On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 22:27:45 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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>>The woman is driving me nuts with this! I can't tell you how many times I
>>have heard her pronounce the word. She says it like mar-uh-NOD. I just
>>looked at dictionary.com and that's not correct. It should be according
>>to
>>them mar-UH-neyd. And that is how I always said it.
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> I've heard it pronounced the way Martha says it (mar-uh-nahd), and
> Sara Moulton says it the same way. I've never heard mar-UH-neyd, which
> you claim to be the correct pronunciation, but I have heard
> MAR-uh-neyd. I think it's a regional thing, and I'm guessing that your
> preferred pronunciation is a US thing.
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> How do you pronounce chiffonade? Or remoulade?
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> Doris
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> I pronounce it MAR-uh-neyd (grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA). Martha's
> pronunciation sounds like it might be New England. I have never heard it
> pronounced the way Julie claims is correct, so I checked a couple of the
> online audio pronouncing dictionaries. Both of them used MAR-uh-neyd for
> "American" pronunciation (although I think it's difficult to find one
> "American" pronunciation for a great many words, given geographical
> differences).

Sorry. I put the emphasis on the wrong syllable. Should be the first or
the last.