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Ask your questions about how to say stuff here. Online. Where you can't actually hear the answers. Maybe this ain't such a hot idea after all.

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Monday, 22 May 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

To start: DAEDALUS

DAY-dull-us?
DEAD-allus?
DEE-dull-us?
DEED-allus?

Or what?

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Monday, 22 May 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Bastard.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

i say Deedallus, but would like to say Dayeedalus

ts: thiefs vs chieves

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Me or Icarus' pop?

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Monday, 22 May 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I say "DEAD-allus" but this is perhaps also influenced more by its use as a code-name in "The Long Kiss Goodnight" and less by my ACTUAL education in the classics (such as it was).

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

i pronounce it day-dah-lus (the first a is also *dull*)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

day-dull-uss

dadel-uss w/ dadel to rhyme w/ ladel or dreidel, even

maybe I mean day-DULL-uss

it's hard to tell, after you've said it for a wee while!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, do you pronouce it with a hard A or a soft ar?

Bastard.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Worst thread idea ever. Get one IPA.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

i say 'barstood' but would like to say 'basstad' and often do, in a 'jokey' 'Northern' voice.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

yer soothun pansy

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

soft ar

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

caetano as in caetano veloso

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Worst thread idea ever. Get one IPA

OTM. Or post a sound recording.

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

ivan smagghe?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

pronunciation
The Pronunciation Thread
Pronunciation

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

In daedalus, the ae should properly be pronounced 'ee', as it is in caesar. However, the final arbiter of any pronunciation is the mass of people who say the word, and this one seems to be accepted in several variants. The rarity of its use in normal conversation and its foreign derivation both help to perpetuate this uncertainty.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

wonder if PF knows how joyce pronounced it

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Got one IPA: cheers!

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― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 May 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Who wants a crack at "ignominy'?

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 22 May 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

ig nah min ee

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 May 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I assume Joyce pronounced it DEE-dal-us cos he spells it with an "e" rather than an "ae".

― Brian Furry (noodle vague), Monday, 22 May 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'd have proposed: ig NO min ee

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

it's a free country

i've always heard "DED uh lus"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

It's 'hominy' that tugs one toward the other pronunciation, I'd guess. Which seems logical, of course.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Why do you people insist on humiliating Noah Webster like this?

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

IG-nuh-muh-nee

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

A dictionary killed my brother!

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Monday, 22 May 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Web 11 has the first syllable stressed in "ignominy" but gives the second syllable stressed (as "NAH") as an alternative.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

that secondary pronunciation always makes me think of priests blessing something in italian

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

i pronounce it closest to si carter

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

what's worse is "ignominious" which sounds wrong regardless

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

really? the noun sounds way awkwarder to me

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

May 22, 2006: a day which shall live in igominy.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

I BELIEVE YOURE LOOKING FOR THE SPELLING THREAD, AIMLESS

HO SNAP

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

caetano as in caetano veloso

Khai-TAHN-oh

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 22 May 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ack! The ignominy of misspelling ignominy.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 22 May 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

linux (operating system) - named after linus in peanuts, right? which I believe is line-is but people seem to say linn-ux

also Bette Davis = Bett E not Bet?

myopic with a longer O or short (it's probably optional)

― spectra (spectra), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

i think i read somewhere that joyce pronounced ulysses "oo-lis-ays."

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

I used to think segue rhymed with league.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

somewhat ridiculously, i just cannot seem to say "romance" properly. despite knowing full well how it should sound my brain does the wrong thing automatically anyway, and i end up saying "ruhmance" or better still "ruh-marhnce". i sound like a right knob.

(maybe anyone who ends up saying 'romance' in public is a knob, i dont know, it's possible)

anyway i think it's prolly cos u can get away with "ruhmantic" without emph the ro-, as well as having a strong thythmic current into the -mantic that's v hard to stop falling into when u have to actively remember the ponderous noun. so what about... ro-mancing, ruhmancing, ruhmahrncing

thx for listening

― rtccc (mwah), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ruhmancing = how I say it.

Longevity = hard or soft g? Banal = baynull or buhnarl? I've been using to former for both of those.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Re: Linux

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha, the author of this book once told me that lower-east side residents of new york city in the 1920s pronounced rivington street "ruh-VING-ton street"

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― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

The hockey team Montréal Canadiens: how is their name pronounced in US (and for that matter Canadian) English please? Approximate French pronunciation of "Canadiens", or simply "Canadians"?

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 11:16 (seventeen years ago)

i always heard U.S. english speakers say it wrong like "Canadiennes," and saying the S at the end

― harbl, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:09 (seventeen years ago)

which is funny because it's like, female canadians

― harbl, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:09 (seventeen years ago)

i.e. their hockey team is a bunch of GURLS

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:12 (seventeen years ago)

how do les québecois say it? and do other canadesians follow their lead?

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)

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