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Pronunciation of "groceries"

I am from the Pacific Northwest, and I grew up pronouncing groceries ['groʊʃriz]. I realized that this wasn't how everyone else was necessarily pronouncing it, so I checked with several online dictionaries, and they told me that/ˈɡroʊs(ə)riz/ is correct. Although they make the schwa optional between the /s/ and the /r/, I think if I were to pronounce it with an /s/ sound instead of a /ʃ/ ("sh") sound, I would include the schwa--the "sr" is hard for me to pronounce without it. How do you pronounce it and where are you from?
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  • Interpretation of the Legend

    (inscriptions on the Kushan Kingdom coins / надписи на монетах Кушанского царства)

  • Spanish query

    I would be most grateful if anyone could help me out with a Spanish idiom, an expression appearing in a discussion of torture from the late 18th…

  • A very strange Etruscan inscription

    Chiusi is a small town in Italy (province of Siena, Tuscany). And once it was one of the most powerful centers of the Etruscan League of 12 cities.…