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OJFordyesterday at 7:36 PM1 replyview on HN

TIL that's the standard US pronunciation. I thought you must be joking, referencing something else: OP's title works with BrE pronunciation at least.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/primer#Pronunciation


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KAMSPioneeryesterday at 9:38 PM

Wait, really? I'm a native Midwestern/Great Plains American English speaker (I remember reading the Harry Potter books as a kid and wondering why all the -er words were spelled wrong) and I say "PRY-mer." I have never heard anyone say "PRIM-mer" in my life.

Am...am I being punk'd...?

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