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Is the American pronunciation of “processes” (as in, rhymes with bees) also a hypercorrection?

• Izkata 5y ago
  > American pronunciation ..since when? I don't think I've ever heard "processees" before...
  • monocasa 5y ago
    I hear it maybe 20% of the time.
  • talaketu 5y ago
    listen to the sentence Psaki utters at about 66s in: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1448740969726156800 https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1448740969726156800
• grzm 5y ago
  I've heard both used in the US.
• gorgoiler 5y ago
  The “hypercorrection” being to use the same long plural e from axis/axes with process/processes?
• dragonwriter 5y ago
  I’m not sure if it is real hypercorrection (or even attempted correction) or a conscious adoption of an available model pronunciation of plural nouns with similar spelling as a tool to distinguish the plural noun from the verb. Though, in either case, it has the danger of suggesting the plural form of the hypothetical word “processee” (from processor, and by analogy to pairs like lessor/lessee), so, “things that are processed”.