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Frogleg
 
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:22:33 +0200, Doris Winter > wrote:

>please can you tell me how to pronounce the word 'recipe'?
>Thank you very much,


There was an old-fashioned American(?) use of 'receipt' (reh-CEET) as
a substitute for 'recipe', sometimes even in spelling. It may be a
sort of 'country' term, and I have heard older folks use this in
speaking. However, 'recipe' is RESS-uh-pee.