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View Poll Results: How do you say it?
Pref-err-ab-ly (with syllables) 7 43.75%
Pref-err-ab-ly (with syllables)
7 43.75%
Preferably (as one syllable) 9 56.25%
Preferably (as one syllable)
9 56.25%
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Old 08-06-2016, 07:17 PM #1
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How do you say it?

Yes I messed up the poll, the second would be "pref rab lee"
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aw ****e that's a better way of writing it
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How would someone pronounce it with one syllable?
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I don't get it
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Pref-err-ab-ly/the long way.

But yeah, even 'pref-rab-lee' has 3 syllables
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Pref err ab ly is easily split up

But pref rab lee slips off the tongue almost as if one syllable

I ****ed it up ok
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I say it the 2nd option. But that is 3 syllables you dumb bitch.
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Pre-fair-a-bull
Preferable is a different word chick.
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PREF-erably.

It's still four syllables no matter how you say it
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