Norman Dunbar wrote:
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:
Hmm, as Jonathan Oakley was apparently involved with the Tyche
development, this makes sense, as many of the later QView projects
were named after gods and godesses (Minerva, Hermes, etc etc)
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.
As you might expect in English, where spelling can be very
non-phonetic, or the same spelling can be pronounced differently.
Admittedly, it probably isn't an English word in the first place,
though.
Never thought this thread would have so many people scouring the
internet for a definitive answer :-)
Dilwyn Jones
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