how do you pronounce "exchequer" ?

[wistlindixie]

ex-checker???

 

[Stacykins]

I am curious too. I don't try and pronounce things I don't know without asking how first, since I'd rather get it right then sound like a doofus. I have run into too many people who say merLOT instead of Merloh for the wine merlot.

 

[Illia]

I honestly do not know, so for the mean time I usually say "ex-check-wer" in my head.

 

[BayouPoules]

Hear it pronounced correctly here,..
I love this site,..

just put your cursor over the word to hear it.



http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=exchequer&submit=Submit

 

[ranchhand]

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Yes. That's the American pronunciation. Accent on the -check-

 

[WallTenters]

Maybe it's my lazy french, but I say it kind of like "esh-keur". Get drunk and it gets easier.

 

[Tartannik]

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Yes. That's the American pronunciation. Accent on the -check-

Thats how i say it and i am scottish!!

 

[wistlindixie]

So glad I figured that one out!

 

[Year of the Rooster]

I kinda say it with a french accent on it. Ex-che-ceur, almost like Mille Fleur.

 

[Chris09]

ex·cheq·uer
[eks-chek-er, iks-chek-er]

–noun
1. a treasury, as of a state or nation.
2.(in Great Britain)
a. ( often initial capital letter ) the governmental department in charge of the public revenues.
b.(formerly) an office administering the royal revenues and determining all cases affecting them.
c.( initial capital letter ) Also called Court of Exchequer. an ancient common-law court of civil jurisdiction in which cases affecting the revenues of the crown were tried, now merged in the King's Bench Division of the High Court.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/exchequer