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Old 03-28-2008, 03:45 PM   #95
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Originally Posted by FurnaceFace View Post
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I used to work for a giant US based company and had multiple calls with a team in the US. As a project mangler I said schedule a lot and after a few months some of the women on the calls told me how they were confused at first when I said the word and thought it was "sweet" or "cute" or something how I said it. After that I had a complex saying the word.
To clarify, how do you say it? Do you subscribe to the CBC-type "we're sophisticated so we say SHEDJ-ool" pronunciation, or is there some other more subtle difference between standard Canadian (SKEDJ-yool) and American pronunciations?
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