I was doing research in a huge Texas oil company, amazed at some pronunciations. Schlumberger -> Slumber-jay, etc. There was a cute young female petroleum eng

I was doing research in a huge Texas oil company, amazed at some pronunciations. Schlumberger -> Slumber-jay, etc. There was a cute young female petroleum engineer (very rare back then), and I asked her to pronounce "c-e-m-e-n-t". She fired right back: "As a noun or a verb?" And that was my day as one in 10,000 to learn this rule... I wanted to ask her to have my baby.