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- Warren DLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
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.
- picadorLv 71 decade ago
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.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
"laboratory" is the only acceptable spelling, "labratory" is a phoneticisation, i.e. spelling the way it's (conventionally) pronounced.
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- Heaven LeighLv 41 decade ago
Laboratory is the correct spelling. Maybe the other spelling is American!
- *~STEVIE~* *~B~*Lv 71 decade ago
I`ve never seen it spelt Labratory...it sounds like how someone would say it who didn`t know the proper spelling or pronunciation.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
laboratory. where you labor is a good way to remember it.
