| @chocolatl: your link not only clearly pronounces it as one syllable in the audio pronunciation, but also shows one syllable in the phonetic pronunciation. Despite this, Wikipedia as well as dictionary.com seem to be unsure which way to pronounce it. Wikipedia gives 3 different phonetic pronunciations, one of which is monosyllabic. Dictionary.com gives 5 different entries: 3 list it as monosyllabic, 1 lists it as 2 syllables but pronounces it as one, and the last lists both pronunciations as accepted. Personally, I pronounce it monosyllabically. |