I woke up this morning thinking about how the word 'comfortable' is pronounced. Yes, I know it's an odd thing to wake up thinking about, but really, relative to the things I dream about, it's actually quite standard.
Anyway, I was wondering whether my pronunciation was a product of my growing up in Israel, and whether I'd never noticed anyone else pronouncing it differently. So I did the sensible thing - I Googled it. I guess I'm not alone in pronouncing it as 'comfterble'. It seems like most people from the US do (At least according to the comments on http://spacefem.livejournal.com/359969.html).
It's funny, because the syllables actually switch places, rather than some sound just being dropped out. It's sort of like 'interesting', which, while I pronounce it 'itresting', I've heard people around here pronounce as 'inneresting'.
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