pronuncation

[winterbadger]

OK, am I totally insane? or at least wrong (which I think might be worse...)

I had always understood that "diocese" was pronounced "DYE-uh-sis" and that it's plural "dioceses" was pronounced "DYE-uh-sees".

However, after strewing through a report on WAMU this morning that kept using what I thought was the wrong pronunciation, I got to work and Hyperdictionary told me:

DIOCESE: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
Pronunciation: 'dIu`sees

So I'm all confused.

Comments

thank you!

[winterbadger]

So, I may still be insane, but at least I'm not irretrievably wrong, and that's good news :-)