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Originally Posted by rousseau
What's confounding about the CBC is that the pronunciations are all over the place.
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With CBC I think half the time they pronounce 'finance' and 'financial' with i = 'eye' and the other half with i = 'eee', to the point that I'm still not sure which pronounciation I should adopt for my own English.
It caused me problems for a while, before I arrived to the point I was 100% sure of having heard both from proper-speaking people, so I'm assuming both are acceptable. 'Route' caused me the exact same type of problem. I'd sear it in my brain once and for all the 'right' way after witnessing a native Anglo pronouncing it, only to realize the next year I had the wrong way burned in my brain after hearing a native Anglo pronounce it the other way, so I'd then make an effort to erase that from my memory and overwrite with the new 'right' way...