Since it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.
I have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood". Twice, morning and afternoon.
Butchered pronunciation
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GrreatTeacher
I'm always impressed when people manage to mispronounce "pronunciation" as "proNOUNCiation.'
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Nikolaus
I have to admit that I as a non-native speaker thought that "pree-lood" was correct.
Reminds me of a situation in the past, when my father was an Elder and had to speak about the "Kingdom Interlinear Translation" which is only available in English. He spoke no English at all and so he asked me. I told him that it was pronounced "Inter-line-ear". When someone from the congregation pronounced it correctly in a comment he kept on pronouncing it wrong because I told him so. I later found out that I tought him bullshit. It was a bit embarrasing.
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This is not non native speakers though. I will admit to be a bit of a grammar nazi.
You can find pronunciation on computers now, so no reason to not check
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Nikolaus
You can find pronunciation on computers now, so no reason to not check
But you only check when you are unsure - and you can be pretty confident when using a wrong pronunciation. Recently, I heard some pronunciations different from the one I used. I was relieved that I was on the correct side on this one after checking online.
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SadElder
Remember when the WT lessons used to have all those Greek or Hebrew words? It was always a hoot to see how badly they were pronounced by the WT reader at the meeting. Sent a note to the teaching and writing committees when I was working on some special projects at Crooklyn asking that they at least include the phonetic pronunciations in the lesson. Never got a peep of a reply.
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Sigfrid Mallozzi
How about "similar" as "sim-u-lar"? Or "extraordinary", as extra'-ordinary instead of
/ɪkˈstrɔrd(ə)nˌeri/