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Doris Winter
 
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PENMART01 wrote:

>>RESS-eh-pea
>>
>>Hope this crosses the English/French phonetics divide.

>
> Actually it's 're-seh--pee
>
> Merriam Webster:
> Main Entry: rec·i·pe
> Pronunciation: 're-s&-(")pE
> ---


Thank you very much. BTW, I'm not from France but from Germany. I just
saw Jamie Oliver on air in a German TV show and wondered why the
moderator kept saying 're-seh-pee', it sounded strange to me, I would
have pronounced it like 're-sype'...