Process - how do you pronounce it?

DECEiFER

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.

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

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.

Tar.Aldarion

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

DECEiFER

Pro-cess

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

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?

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:

DECEiFER

Pro-cess

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

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.