Debacle

[plueken]

Yesterday, I finally managed to win an old battle that I have been fighting for ages - the pronunciation of the word 'debacle'. I have given in to many correct pronunciations as time went on, from alias to deity to bestowed, but I have been fighting debacle for years. The issue was first raised back in AP Literature, when everyone claimed that it

Comments

[violinloca]

Oh great language master, pray tell: How does one pronounce "bestowed"?

[plueken]

That's just mockery. I don't need to respond.

[violinloca]

Mockery! Why it's a legitimate question! Please, O language master, without your answer, how am I to know the truth?

[tylerst3]

At least when you pronounce words in a manner that's against the norm, you may actually be right. Dylan Boynton, however, never is.

[eruaphadriel_]

Wow...had you ever asked me to pronounce "debacle" I would have pronounced at you..."DE-bah-kul"...De-BAH-kul just sounds dumb, like when you pronounce syllable "si-LAH-bul"...Anyways, I would agree with all of your other words and pronouciations as well EXCEPT for root...which IS pronounced as "foot" (except in the occasion of the square root).

[eruaphadriel_]

*I would have pronounced as you...