This is what would be expected from the stress rules of Latin (I believe most or all of these words came through Latin before entering English), since the penultimate "a" in the original Greek words is short. Maybe Latin vowel quality and stress rules are not very relevant; certainly, few...
In this dictionary slashes (/../) bracket phonetic pronunciations of words not found in a standard English dictionary. The notation, and many of the pronunciations, were adapted from the Hacker'sJargon File. Syllables are separated bydashor followedsingle quoteorback quote. Single quote means ...
the pronunciation of Greeketalike theeinbe.—etacist,n. hyper-urbanism an overcorrected pronunciation or usage that attempts to mask guttural or provincial speech. nasalism a tendency toward nasality in pronouncing words. Alsonasality. orthoepy ...
Many words of Greek and Latin origin are used in entomology and are of two kinds. The first kind is words that have been adopted into English and other modern languages to describe forms, structures and processes. The second kind is the Latin (scientific) names of taxa at all classificatory...
did not write vowels -- except in late transcriptions of foreign (mainly Greek) words. For a time French (vowels) and German (no vowels) scholars hotly debated this, but the matter was settled more than a century ago. This is typically not explained to people who are told that their nam...
Though the original pronunciation of 'Celtic' was with an 's' sound, the 'k' (kell-tik) pronunciation came about in the 18th century and has flourished since. Now, the 'k' sound is the standard pronunciation of 'Celtic.'
Greek CH:There is a third, less common "ch" sound that is identical to a K. We have this one in English too. It comes from the Greek letter chi (χ) and appears most often in Greek-derived words (Chaos,Charakter), but it also appears in a few Germanic words, like the aforemention...
The act of uttering with articulation; utterance; as the pronunciation of syllables or words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation. 2. The mode of uttering words or sentences; particularly, the art or manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; now called delivery. ...
However, there are exceptions, among which are many compound or prefixed words of Greek origin. The use of such compounds is I believe a relatively "recent" phenomenon, in a certain sense: although the word hypocrisy technically originates from a Greek compound/prefixed word, a native English...
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