lingerie
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Some other words with the same ending and sound include: movie, cookie, brownie, auntie, genie, zombie.
Do you pronounce the ‘ie’ spelling at the end of ‘lingerie’ as /ee/? I don’t, I say ‘lingerie’ to rhyme with ‘on today’, and the Macquarie Dictionary agrees with me. I put words like ‘movie’ and ‘cookie’ here: https://www.spelfabet.com.au/spelling-lists/sorted-by-sound/ee/ie-as-in-chief.
I cannot bring myself to utter the word ‘lingerie’ with the inexplicably popular ‘on today’ pronunciation, a travesty of how it should be said according to its origins, with vowels rather more like … ‘travesty’.
Sorry, I’m just following the pronunciation guide in the Macquarie Dictionary: /ˈlɒnʒəreɪ/ (say ‘lonzhuhray). Lots of French words get different pronunciation after they are imported into English. Alison