> >Anyway I looked all over the answers to that poll for "both" but soon realized that the word has more pronounciations than New Orleans.
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> Crazy, almost a straight split in responses too. And once again, Rinkworks is eating my BRAIN because I was just having this debate yesterday. I'm taking a class called "Hurricanes of the Gulf Coast" -- and the C-word comes up at least a couple times a day. Just yesterday we realized that our prof has used BOTH pronunciations - multiple times. In the end, the general concensus was that there is no single PC version nowadays. Still makes for a fun, if pointless, debate.

Theater Theatre
Different spelling, two ways to pronounce either one. Also good for fun, pointless debate.
Howard