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How to pronounce leap year in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms 366 days, bissextile year, intercalary year
Type of twelvemonth, year, yr

Examples of leap year

leap year
The leap year rule that has been in place since 1582 is a bit more complicated.
From the guardian.co.uk
The dilemma I plan to take advantage of the leap year to propose to my boyfriend.
From the guardian.co.uk
A normal year would consist of 365 days while a leap year would have 366 days.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Because 2008 is a leap year, February's numbers count one more day than last year.
From the freep.com
Usually a year is a leap year if it is divisible by four, like 2012, or 1992.
From the learning.blogs.nytimes.com
You can read more about determining leap years on TimeandDate.com's leap year page.
From the learning.blogs.nytimes.com
This year's February sales benefited from one extra day because of leap year.
From the foxbusiness.com
Fiscal 2008 is a leap year which includes an extra day of sales in February.
From the foxbusiness.com
With this change, that's when February changed to 28 days and 29 during a leap year.
From the stltoday.com