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02-09-2010, 08:23 PM
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Con-trov-es-see

The es as in especially.

As opposed to how most Australians pronounce it:

Con-tra-ver-see

I don't know how to navigate the International Phonetic Alphabet. If I could, I'd have conveyed the pronunciation in it.

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