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02-04-2008, 04:17 PM
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Location: The 12th State
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How is it pronounced?
Die vise ive?
Da visa ive?
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02-04-2008, 04:56 PM
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Location: Falling Waters, WV
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I would go with Die vis ise.
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02-04-2008, 06:50 PM
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Location: Lots of sun and palm trees with occasional hurricane :)
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It's
Dee vise eve
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02-04-2008, 08:37 PM
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Location: The 12th State
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that is what I thought too I saw it was debated on Jack Cafferty and I thought well I guess it would depend on where the person is from in how they think it is pronounced like Nevada has two pronunciations
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02-05-2008, 04:39 AM
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Location: Black Hammock Island
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I go with dih--V-EYE--siv
Here's another - debacle .. before it came into frequent use, it was pronounced DEH-ba-cul .. now it's supposed to be deh-BAH-cul
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02-05-2008, 05:52 AM
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Location: in the southwest
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mawipafl
I go with dih--V-EYE--siv
Here's another - debacle .. before it came into frequent use, it was pronounced DEH-ba-cul .. now it's supposed to be deh-BAH-cul
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Yes!
I saw two different news people say dih-vis-iv rather than dih-V-EYE--siv, and I was really confused by this.
When I looked it up, I saw no listing at all for their pronunciation, but then I did not research it exhaustively.
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02-05-2008, 12:43 PM
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Location: Kingman AZ
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hmmmm I have never been De VIDED so it must be De V EYE Seive
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02-05-2008, 01:36 PM
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Location: The Circle City. Sometimes NE of Bagdad.
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di vi sive
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02-06-2008, 01:05 PM
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Miriam Webster says -
Pronunciation: \də-ˈvī-siv also -ˈvi- or -ziv\
Does that help?
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02-06-2008, 01:12 PM
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Location: Journey's End
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Well,
I have a to-mat-o, an a to-ma-to,
so I am going to say both are acceptable.
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