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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:08:29 +1000, Peter Moylan    
   wrote:   
      
   >There used to be a low-calorie Australian beer called Dietale. My uncles   
   >used to pronounce it as if it were an Italian word.   
      
   So did I when I first saw it.   
      
   I've discovered that "biopic" is pronounced "BI-o-pic", but I still   
   tend to pronounce it as "bi-Opic".   
      
      
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