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How to pronounce penitentiary in American English
“penitentiary” pronunciation by American speakers
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Also, just returned from Texas, visiting a women's penitentiary.
The Obama White House
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but to sentence me to life plus 10 years in the federal penitentiary for
Dept of Justice
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In the Leavenworth Penitentiary records, our archivists discovered documents that show that there was an unusual
National Archives
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