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Process - how do you pronounce it?

  • 16-04-2013 3:17pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭


    In British English it's pro-cess. In American English it's prah/praw-cess. Though, in Ireland, it can go either way as you often hear both. It's always been prah/praw-cess for me. Being a computer nerd as of the age of 9, the word processor (prah/praw-cessor) was used quite a lot by my friends and I.

    Process - how do you pronounce it? 1 vote

    Prah/Praw-cess
    0%
    Pro-cess
    100%
    DECEiFER 1 vote


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    You're missing "both" / Atari Jaguar in your poll!

    I say "pro-cess" for the noun ("this process needs to be changed") and "prah-cess" for the verb ("the computer processed a million records").
    Come to think of it, record is another word I pronounce differently depending on whether it's a noun (rec-ord) or verb (re-cord).

    There are a good few examples of words being stressed differently in English depending their role in a particular sentence:
    Present
    Address
    Wind
    Bow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭DECEiFER


    Pro-cess
    Yakuza wrote: »
    You're missing "both" / Atari Jaguar in your poll!

    I say "pro-cess" for the noun ("this process needs to be changed") and "prah-cess" for the verb ("the computer processed a million records").
    Come to think of it, record is another word I pronounce differently depending on whether it's a noun (rec-ord) or verb (re-cord).

    There are a good few examples of words being stressed differently in English depending their role in a particular sentence:
    Present
    Address
    Wind
    Bow
    Fair point but I can't do anything about it now. My time to edit the post is expired.

    Elsewhere, in the case of "process," it's generally one or the other across both the noun and verb. I rarely hear an English accent pronounce "prah-cess." It's more likely to hear an American accent say "pro-cess" but then it could actually be Canadian as they're likely to go with the British pronunciation.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,106 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Pro-cess, I only ever hear Prah/Praw-cess on TV.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭DECEiFER


    Pro-cess
    Pro-cess, I only ever hear Prah/Praw-cess on TV.
    Really? It's very common in Ireland to hear it either way with people of all ages. Maybe it's the area I'm in, I don't know.

    I find that "pro-cess" sounds natural to an English accent. Most of our accents, apart from the extremely well-to-do posh accents that have an English twang, sound more natural with "prah-cess." At least, that's my opinion. It's like hearing a Canadian say "pro-cess." It just doesn't suit their accents at all. However, any American will use "prah-cess," with few exceptions, so I take it that you don't know anyone in the U.S because it's definitely not just something you'd hear on the TV? :)


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,106 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Nope, don't know any Americans. I can imagine it varies, I don't know everybody or hear most people I do know even say process. :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭DECEiFER


    Pro-cess
    Nope, don't know any Americans. I can imagine it varies, I don't know everybody or hear most people I do know even say process. :pac:
    I'm really not making it up when I say that it does vary in Ireland. Does it lean in one particular direction? That's why I started this thread, after not being able to find one already about "process," to attempt to gauge a favorite of the two.


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