How do you say "duration"?

You say duration as doo-RAY-shun, pronounced dyoo-RAY-shun in British English and doo-RAY-shun in American English, with stress on second syllable RAY. Phonetic spelling is /djuˈreɪʃən/ in British and /duˈreɪʃən/ in American, broken into three syllables du-ra-tion. The first syllable du sounds like doo as in do, second syllable ra sounds like ray as in sun ray, third syllable tion sounds like shun as in station. So you say doo-RAY-shun quickly. In American English, some say dur-AY-shun with slightly harder d. The word duration comes from Latin duratio from durare meaning to last. To pronounce correctly, emphasize middle syllable RAY, not first or last. Common mispronunciation is dur-AH-tion, but correct is du-RAY-shun. In roofing context, Owens Corning Duration shingles are pronounced the same, du-RAY-shun shingles. You can practice saying the duration of movie is two hours, saying doo-RAY-shun. In French, duration is duree pronounced doo-RAY, but English is doo-RAY-shun. If you need to say duration in sentence, say What is the doo-RAY-shun of the meeting. So you say duration as three syllable word with stress on second syllable, doo-RAY-shun.