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Pronunciation: decipher / cipher #1 (permalink) Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:37 am   Pronunciation: decipher / cipher
 

Hi

Could you, please, pronounce for me decipher (and cipher)?

PS
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/decipher?view=uk
http://www.bartleby.com/61/37/D0073700.html

but
http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&matchent=decipher&matchtype=exact
ABBYY LIngvo @decipher
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Pronunciation: decipher / cipher #2 (permalink) Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:08 am   Pronunciation: decipher / cipher
 

Decipher and cipher:

[di'saif9]

['saif9]
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Pronunciation: decipher / cipher #3 (permalink) Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:11 am   Pronunciation: decipher / cipher
 

To rhyme with Don't (de)cry for me Argentina! Bearing in mind that for has our old friend schwa in it.

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Pronunciation: decipher / cipher #4 (permalink) Mon Jan 22, 2007 23:49 pm   Pronunciation: decipher / cipher
 

Thanks.

Strange word(s), really.
I heard some people around (including my own son, who learnt English in the UK school) pronouncing it as it is given in many (most) vocabularies - [di'sifer]. Sounds very unnatural....
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