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Ragtag Daily Prompt for today is CONFERENCE.

I don’t have much to say about the word ‘conference‘ other than it made me think of different types of speech and three syllable words that are spoken as only two syllable words. I think technically (or technicly) they’re called ‘silent syllables’, but for something a little snazzier, we could call this phenomenon invisyllables.

So the prompt word, conference, has three syllables: con-fer-ence. I live in the Upper Midwest of the grand old USA and pronounce the word con-frence. So if I were on my way to a conference and someone said, “Hey, man, where are you going?”, I’d say, “Oh, hi there, I’m going to a confrence. You betcha!” I stress the first syllable of the word correctly, but I murder and silently dispose of and bury half of the second syllable.

Know what else? I also pronounce badminton and Wednesday as badmitten and Wensday, but I think a lot of other people do that as well so it’s not just an Upper Midwest of the grand old USA thing. Thinking about it now I don’t think I’ve heard a person say the ‘nes‘ in Wednesday or the ‘min‘ in badminton. Seems a waste of ink, lead and finger strength to write them.

I do pronounce restaurant correctly, but comfortable for me is comfterble.

Family and separate – sometimes family and separate go very well together – come in for me with three syllables each. There are other words that will probly come to mind later.

I pronounced donuts with choklat frosting as “Mmmm, yes!” because they are one of my favrits.

Thanks for letting me bore you.