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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven

What the absolute hell?

Americans pronounce primer as "prim-mer" and not "pri-mer"?!

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/primer

(This inspired by Jon Stewart saying prim-mer on The Daily Show.)

Wiktionaryprimer - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

@asmodai
I've never pronounced it that way. And Wikipedia has the us "irregular" pronunciation which is what I've always heard. Maybe it's a regional thing in the US?

@asmodai No we don’t. I’ve lived & worked all over the country & I’ve only ever heard a handful of people say “primmer” & it always sounds weird. Primer pronounced like “timer” is the norm, not like “slimmer”.