I still find it amusing that some AHmericans (not AYmericans) pronounce italian as EYEtalian even though the countries are called ITaly (not EYEtaly) and AHmerica (not AYmerica)

>How do youse guys pronounce "mandatory"?
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>I was in a presentation years ago where a Brit consistently said man-DATE-o-ry so I used that a few years later talking to another Brit. He looked at me funny, but was nice enough not to say anything.
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>>The subject today is Stress on syllables and the differences each side of the pond
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>>WORD        US           UK (and the civilised world)
>>__________  ___________  ____________________________
>>Metalurgy   Metal-URGY   Me-TAL-(uh)gy
>>Laborotory  LAB-'ro-TORY Lab-OR-at'ry
>>Inventory   IN-ven-TORY  IN-vent'ry
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>>I've heard lots of others but last week I wasn't sure my ears weren't deceiving me when, in CSI Miami, I swear the pathologist called her profession "patho-LOGY" (We'd say "Path-OL-ogy"). I guess this matches with metalurgy, but it sounded so weird, like by someone whose first language isn't English, like, say, an Indian pronunciation (I used to have a Indian maths teacher who said: "Al-GEB-ra", "Arit'-METIC" and "Geo-METRY")
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>>If that's the case then "apology" should be "A-pol-OGIE" ?