Question 1

How do native speakers pronounce "octicimation" in English?

Accepted Answer

In natural English speech, "octicimation" appears in contexts such as: "And like other Native Americans their populations were decimated by diseases such as smallpox and influenza. Actually it was much worse than decimation. As many of you have pointed out, "decimation" means 1 in 10. This was much worse than that. It was closer maybe to 8 in 10, which would be an "octicimation." So there had been civilizations in North America but they peaked before the Europeans arrived. The Zuni and Hopi civilization roundabout here peaked". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

Question 2

Where can I hear "octicimation" used in a real sentence?

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Our pronunciation database found 1 conversational video occurrences of "octicimation" with real-time synchronized transcripts and sentence context.

How to pronounce“octicimation”in English

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