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Originally Posted By: Buffalo ShrdluOriginally Posted By: LukeJavan8
As to the words.
I love "cerulean", and use the word whenever it fits.
I like cerulean, too, and I think it's why I always want to pronounce "herculean" the wrong way...
your major dictionaries seem to give "the wrong way" as (at a minimum) a secondary pronun. I still have an issue interpreting IPA, but it looks to me like OED gives it as the *only pronun. - at least the accent is on the second sylLAble.
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