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Subject: Re: How do you spell "occasion"?
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On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:30:04 +0200, Hans Bolte wrote:
> How do you spell "occasion"?
>
> Like "okay" or like "ocean"?
I think you may be asking about pronunciation - how the word is spoken.
If so then it's spoken with the "cc" as a hard "k" sound so it sounds
like "okasion"- so your reference to it being like "okay" is correct.
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