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To: Albion Wilde

Pronouncing it as spelled is acceptable —

https://www.google.com/search?q=brooch&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS741US741&oq=brooch&aqs=chrome..69i57.2753j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

— and most common where I grew up in New England.


139 posted on 05/22/2017 1:12:44 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker; CivilWarBrewing
Pronouncing it as spelled is acceptable —

I looked it up meantime, too, and Oxford agrees that either pronunciation is currently acceptable; "brooch" came into Middle English from French and was based on the French word broche (pronounced BRO-sh), accounting for the long "o" sound in the "broach" version. So the next mystery is where the double "o" came from? LOL!

149 posted on 05/22/2017 1:44:10 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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