Afternoon all,
On 06/04/11 10:52, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Gerard Phelan had the idea of asking a search engine how to pronounce it
(now why didn't I think of that?).
That's what I did too!
http://www.forvo.com/word/tyche/
Interesting in that the word is Greek and is pronounced Tee-chee. Tyche
is/was the goddess of [good] fortune. Also:
http://www.goddess.com.au/goddesses/Tyche.htm says (amongst other stuff):
Tyche (pronounced tee-chee) is the Greek goddess of fortune. Although
she was a daughter of Zeus, she was reputed to be quite irresponsible.
She preferred to run about juggling a ball than to carry the Cornucopia
filled with golden fruit, instead entrusting the task to her assistant
Plutus. The first set of dice were found in Tyche's temple perhaps
indicating the capriciousness of life and luck and the fickle manner in
which she decided the fortunes of mortals.
Just goes to show, never trust an Internet Search Engine to give you
*one* definitive answer! ;-) For example:
http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=Tyche
pronounces it completely differently.
Cheers,
Norman.
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