aforementioned pronunciation

The Cambridge Learner's dictionary has audio files with both American and British pronunciation of their entries. Here is [aforementioned](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/aforementioned#google_vignette).

Merriam-Webster lists both pronunciations, along with a third. The second pronunciation it gives doesn't truly emphasize the first syllable though, just an even stress.

The first way, which is correct. This might be the most commonly mispronounced word in US English. “Affermentioned” is how I almost always hear it. Drives me nuts.

I have never heard anyone say it the first way lol

I would put the emphasis on the fore

Brit here and I say it your way. I think I've heard it the other way in movies and stuff though.

Reading the comments, I'm surprised at how many people stress the second syllable. I'm an American, and I have never once heard it that way. I have only heard it the way OP's wife says it. Merriam-Webster lists both pronunciations, but the first one they list stresses the second syllable. Has my life been a lie!? haha

I think this is a US vs British difference, with Americans placing the emphasis on the first syllable and Brits on the second

I say it the way you do it, and dictionaries like [dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/aforementioned) and [Oxford English Dictionary](https://www.oed.com/dictionary/aforementioned_adj?tab=factsheet#115838827) agree.

I'd put the stress on the third syllable (my 'mentioned' part doesn't sound any different from normal 'mentioned' **to me**), which I guess means the first syllable is more stressed then the second for me.

I'm American, and I put the stress on the first syllable. From the other comments, it seems like I'm in the minority, even for Americans, but my whole family says it this way.

I say it the way your wife says it. I’ve genuinely heard both ways often enough to think they’re just variants.

I think a-FOUR-mentioned is the more common way to say it but I have heard people emphasise the AFF, yeah.

American here, I say it like your wife. I listened to the Cambridge recording someone else linked that that's not how I say it. The emphasis is on the first syllable and it's the very American, nasal 'Ah' sound that starts the word.

I’m American and I say it with secondary stress on the first syllable and main stress on the third

I've literally never heard anyone say it the first way. The pronunciation I've always heard, and what I'm 99% sure is correct, is the second way