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How do y'all pronounce the above two words?
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This yall pronounces it ( ba-ROAK PEE-an-ess). And I'm right. 
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Gosh if you say it out loud it sounds like a urologic emergency...
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I'd say something like ba-ROCK pee-AN-nist, though I have said 'ba-ROAK' before. I don't see why one wouldn't pronounce the 't' in 'pianist' to tell the truth.
(auf Deutsch würde ich eher 'PEE-an-nist' sagen übrigens, oder aber einfach 'Klavierspieler' ;-)
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Yep, by - I also have heard (and used) both pronunciations, but in Britland I usually hear ba-ROCK, espec. amongst the students and lecturers from the Music Department.
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/ba ROAK PEE a nist/ OR /ba ROAK pee AH nist/
(but I agree completely with by on the 't' )
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buh-ROAK PEA-uh-nist
This thread is funny in an offbeat, even off-color, way...
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OK, anachronisms aside, I'm interested in the two words independently. I pronounce them as WW does, but I am hearing more and more edjumicated USns saying Ba-ROCK (and even BAH-rock), as the Brits do, and pi-A-nist. Just observing change here, you understand.
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I suspect that there were no pianos when Baroque was the prevalent art form
And I always heard it pronounced "ba rock". Maybe because I was reading in German.
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I'll weigh-in with WordWind on pronunciation. Can't say I've ever heard (or maybe just never noticed) ba-ROCK.
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