Is it Laboratory or Labratory????
Why the 2 spellings?
Why the 2 spellings?
Warren D
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I would go with "laboratory" because it is the PREFERRED spelling. (I generally pronounce the second syllable anyway.)
Many words have more than one spelling and/or more than one pronunciation.
As a journalist (even a broadcaster) I always go with preferred spelling.
picador
It is laboratory everywhere in the English-speaking world, although the inflexion may vary.
Edit- Phlatulent Frog points out the phoneticism of "labratory." This could not happen in the U.K. or Canada because there the second syllable is stressed.
★Star Girl★™
It's Laboratory
Anonymous
"laboratory" is the only acceptable spelling, "labratory" is a phoneticisation, i.e. spelling the way it's (conventionally) pronounced.
Heaven Leigh
Laboratory is the correct spelling. Maybe the other spelling is American!