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Re:YouPronounceIt: Search for a word, get videos of YouTube ... by dragonwriter on Friday October 09, 2015 @09:34AM (#10359859)
Merriam-Webster lists all three of those as accepted pronunciations [0]; like many things in English, there is significant regional variation.

[0] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quay

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Re:YouPronounceIt: Search for a word, get videos of YouTube ... by hugh4 on Saturday October 10, 2015 @02:22AM (#10364699)
Is the word "Quay" even used in US English?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quay_(disambiguation) gives quays all over the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore, but none in the US -- with the exception of a couple of tiny landlocked towns in Oklahoma and New Mexico called "Quay".

Are we allowed to call a mispronunciation a mispronunciation when it's only pronounced that way by people who have probably never encountered that word before?

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