Originally posted by booyah
Methinks this one might be a mispelling.... in the US it is pronounced 'labratory' but I've never seen it spelt so phonetically. Do people really spell it that way legitimately?
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You're correct. Now I think of it, I don't recall having seen the word spelled as we Yanks pronounce it. Mea culpa.
Unfortunately this points out the probability that
laziness is the reason for the divergence of spelling in common English words. I blame Madison Avenue. 'Lite', 'brite', 'EZ', etc...this sort of thing just annoys the cr@p out of me.
-Rob