How do you pronounce the word groceries?

Question

The dictionary says it should be three syllables as grow-sir-ease, but I pronounce it as two syllables grow-shrease. Do I need to get a better dictionary or do I have an accent?

Answer 1

The dictionary is right. However in North America the second syllable is usually truncated and unstressed, making it sound like two syllables.

Answer 2

There is a pretty even split between those two pronunciations, I do the grow-sir-ease, but I sometimes say grow-shrease. It's just a matter of where you grew up maybe?

Answer 3

I say grow-sure-ees. Three syllables with the accent on the grow.

Answer 4

1. You have an accent
2. You're right.
3. Your dictionary is right.

Are you scared of being "mistaken" as a foreigner? Sometimes I think that the US is run by the talibans. Accents are a matter of concern!

Answer 5

You have an accent.

It should have three syllables because it comes from the word grocer (two syllables) with -ies added on the end (another syllable), grocer-ies.

Answer 6

I think the dictionary is correct and you a speaking a dialect of English when you collapse it to two syllables.

Don't worry about a pronunciation detail like this!

Answer 7

I used to pronounce it as you do, but I have learned to call it grow sir ease. It seems to be the more " grammar correct" way.

Answer 8

gro·cer·y [grṓssəree]
n (plural gro·cer·ies)

accent or no accent, it still maintains itself as a three-syllable word. i don't think it is too difficult to pronounce it.

Answer 9

Officially, it is three syllables: gro·cer·ies

Answer 10

Dictionary is right.

I usually shorten to grow-sreese