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Always used "VEE-ah". "VIE-ah" sounds awkward and takes more effort to pronounce. And if the word is Latin to begin with...



Yes but Americans (assuming your location and your nationality are the same thing) ipso facto, don't speak (or spell) properly.

You probably also say "the InAHnet" and "I'm not inAHrested" and "she'll be comin' round the moun-EN when she comes Yee-Haw!".

I much prefer the Irish brogue; the Scottish burr; the Australian slur, or even my own Lithuanian accent, to the jarring American "rureely inAHRresting InAHnet site " and "how fayest is yeeor karrrrr?"

The glottal stop is the reason I cannot listen to CNN, the only English-language television channel here.

I'm staying with my hunch.

P.S.

And when it comes to spelling, the man who cannot see that British English is the best looking as well as the sufficient and sensible form (encyclopaedia; programme; colour; manoeuvre; dialogue; faeces; cheque; foetus; queue; grey; and so on) is aesthetically and mentally deficient.