Is it "con-SPY-ruh-see" or "con-SPEE-ruh-see"?

I did look it up in many dictionaries and I got contradictory answers.

How do you people pronounce tihs word?

con-speer-a-see

[This message has been edited by niggersexual (edited 03-06-2007).]

Cun-spee-ra-see

English pronunciation rules have largely been lost. A long time ago things were apparently pronounced as they were spelled.

Hmm... where are ya'll from? e.g. south?

Looks like most people pronounce it "cun-SPEE-ruh-see," damn... I lost a bet now. Screw you niggersexual!!

I pronounce it "cun-spear-uh-c."

Webster has pronunciations if you want to hear someone say it:

http://209.161.33.50/cgi-bin/audio.p...wav=conspiracy

Conspiracy actually comes from the latin word cōnspīrātiō which is a version of cōnspīrāre which means to conspire.

Con in latin is always pronounced 'con' so that solves the cun vs con debate (although most people including myself have naturally lazy speech so pronounce the con like you would say gon of 'gonna getcha, but with a C so a cross of O and U).

Again sticking to Latin, the spi would be pronounced as it sounds so so far we have "Con-Spi".

Next is ra which has a short a so "ra" rather than "raaa" and cy which is widly accepted as "see".

So therefore the correct pronunciation is "Con-Spi-Ra-See" although most people will pronounce it "Cun-Spi-Ra-See"

Damn totse doesn't recognize IPA symbols.

conspeeracy, with the o being pronounced as a schwa

The Latin "i" is the same sound as "ee" in English. Conspeerrasee is correct.