PC British pronunciation

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Hello
I heard a british pronouncing PC as piisay or peesay I don't know how to write phonetics but C in PC was pronounced say instead of peesee.
Is this correct?

Thanks a lot
 
Hello
I heard a british person pronouncing PC as piisay or peesay I don't know how to write phonetics but C in PC was pronounced say instead of peesee.
Is this correct?

Thanks a lot

Definitely not! In UK English, "P" is always "pee" and "C" is always "see", so PC is always "pee-see".

buggles (not a teacher)
 
Sounds like a Londoner from the East End doing a bad job feigning RP.
 
With some accents like the Midlands, it could be somewhere between the two sounds, though it would be the same for both.
 
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