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WardNA
 
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>wondered why the
>moderator kept saying 're-seh-pee', it sounded strange to me, I would
>have pronounced it like 're-sype'.


.. . . and in some rural corners, it is pronounced "receipt" and even spelled
that way. Which, I guess, is a translation of the French gerund the word
derives from.

Neil