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*Baggs*, I did look up ‘research’ in my years-old big fat Oxford dictionary recently, and found that both research and reesearch are both accepted pronunciations (IIRC both verb and noun) now.
I was perhaps not exactly wrothful ? but certainly chagrined.
That's probably (prolly/probly) because Oxford dictionaries, according to a friend who was an editor of them at OUP, are descriptive rather than prescriptive. Chambers, my go-to dictionary of preference is prescriptive.