Inherent (pronunciation)

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Two pronunciations of the adjective inherent may be heard in academic English using RP in Britain. In the USA, GA favours one. None of these three has a proper claim to exclude the others. The one preferred by 66% of a sample in an LPD poll in 1988 has the vowel of 'egg' in the central syllable.