Jeff Adkins wrote:
> I'll bet you get a variety of answers on this one, given our international
> audience!
>
> But just to stimulate responses, I'll throw my two cents worth in here. This
> is how I pronounce them, not how the dictionary says to pronounce them
> necessarily. All caps is the emphasized syllable:
>
> gnomon "NO - mun"
> azimuth "AZ- i - muth" (short u)
> analemma "Anna -LEM-uh"
> altitude "AL-ti- too-deh" (very small "eh")
> fiducial "fid- OO-shull"
> pendulum "PEND - yool - um" or sometimes "PEN -jew- lum"
> orrery "or-RUH-ree"
> polaris "po -LARE - iss"
> equatorial "eh- quah - TORR- ee-yall"
> zenith "ZEE - nith"
> nadir "nay -DIR"
> horizon "hor - EYE- zunn"
> elliptical "el-LIP-tih-kull"
>
> There are probably some terms the more experienced dialists (DIE-uhl-ists)
> would add. This could be fun, especially if we can distinguish pronunciations
> geographically this way.
>
> Ryan, you ask the best questions.
>
> Jeff
>
> Ryan Weh wrote:
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> Jeff Adkins
> Location: 38.00 N, 121.81 W
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Well, Jeff, here in the land of Greenwich Mean Time we pronounce some of those
words quite differently, as you might expect.
Specifically:
gnomon "no - mon" (No particular stress on either syllable)
altitude "AL - ti - tewd"
polaris "po - LARR - iss"
zenith "ZEN - ith" (short e)
nadir "na - DEAR" (short a)
As these last two are from Arabic, we should really ask an Arab, I suppose.
You could add:
analemmatic "Anna - lem - MAT - ic"
equinox "EK - we - nox"
Greenwich "GREN - itch"
nodus "no - duss"
solstice "sol - stiss"
Regards
Chris
Chris Lusby Taylor
51.5 N, 1.5 W
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