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TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" 17:26 - Jan 19 with 478 viewsKeno

do you say Con-tro-versy

or Con-trov-esy

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TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 17:28 - Jan 19 with 468 viewsArnoldMoorhen

The second for me, but when saying "con-trov-er-sial" it is more like the first.
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TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 17:29 - Jan 19 with 465 viewsSwansea_Blue

Yes.

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TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 17:38 - Jan 19 with 440 viewsBrianTablet

TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 17:29 - Jan 19 by Swansea_Blue

Yes.


Liar.

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TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 17:42 - Jan 19 with 437 viewsKeno

TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 17:38 - Jan 19 by BrianTablet

Liar.


come on, be nice lets not create a controversy

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TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 17:48 - Jan 19 with 430 viewsbluelagos

You need to ask?

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TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 18:05 - Jan 19 with 414 viewshomer_123

Gimme a C
Gimme an O
Gimme an N
.....

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TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 18:11 - Jan 19 with 406 viewsfactual_blue

Absolutely.

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TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 18:15 - Jan 19 with 398 viewsFixed_It

Ooohh - controversial!

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TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 18:46 - Jan 19 with 380 viewseireblue

I have found some examples of usage through the ages.

I think it is fairly conclusive.









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TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 22:50 - Jan 19 with 332 viewsfactual_blue

TWTD Hive Mind question - how do you pronounce "controversy" on 17:42 - Jan 19 by Keno

come on, be nice lets not create a controversy


I can't find a clip, but there was many many years ago a Two Ronnies sketch in which they were on a discussion programme called Controversy. They agreed on every topic raised, so there was no controversy. As the programme ended with the words 'so it's good night from Controv-ersy', they then started bitterly disagreeing about the pronunciation of the word.

(Following the word's latin roots, it's 'contro-versy'. Probably. Or not.)

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