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Poll: How do you pronounce 'mandatory'?
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Poll: How do you pronounce 'mandatory'?
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: How do you pronounce it?
man-duh-tor-ee
49
96.08%
man-date-ree
2
3.92%
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Hobbes
Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Post #1
How do you pronounce 'mandatory'?
Sazare
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 34,855
Post #2
MAN-duh-tor-ee
Witchpop
Member Since: 3/24/2012
Posts: 15,013
Post #3
man-duh-tour-ee
Jet
ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 46,848
Post #4
Never heard of man-date-ree. I say it the right way.
Pikachoo
Member Since: 5/27/2016
Posts: 2,338
Post #5
you're confusing the pronunciation of mandate with mandatory.
ABeyBraith
Member Since: 5/27/2016
Posts: 2,737
Post #6
Never in my life have I heard someone say "Man-date-ree"
pxxxtrick
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 7,700
Post #7
Quote:
Originally posted by
ABeyBraith
Never in my life have I heard someone say "Man-date-ree"
Outlaws
Member Since: 5/19/2011
Posts: 34,328
Post #8
I dont
But man-duh-tor-ee.
Jonathan Peter
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Member Since: 9/5/2012
Posts: 5,558
Post #9
Man-da-tree
KitKat
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Member Since: 11/1/2010
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Post #10
Man-da-tree is more common in older English. Picture McGonagall from Harry Potter saying it and you'll hear it.
Edit:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/p...lish/mandatory
There it is.
Fenrir
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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Post #11
Man-duh-tore-ee
Harrier
Member Since: 8/17/2013
Posts: 7,248
Post #12
I definitely say both depending on emphasis or how fast I'm speaking
Buddy
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 9,012
Post #13
Quote:
Originally posted by
ABeyBraith
Never in my life have I heard someone say "Man-date-ree"
Jonathan Peter
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Member Since: 9/5/2012
Posts: 5,558
Post #14
I must be the only one who says Man-da-tree then?
Scandalous
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 10,569
Post #15
didn't know there were multiple ways to say it
man-da-tori
Punisher
Member Since: 8/7/2015
Posts: 8,751
Post #16
MAN-duh-tor-ee
katheryn
Member Since: 3/15/2013
Posts: 600
Post #17
The exact way it's spelled.
Marvin
Member Since: 1/20/2012
Posts: 27,830
Post #18
man-duh-tor-ee
Kanji
Member Since: 5/13/2012
Posts: 21,615
Post #19
man-dah-toh-ree
EtherealCat
Member Since: 5/27/2016
Posts: 1,840
Post #20
Man-dah-tray
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