I’ve only ever heard that word as “DOUGH-cent”
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Army creole gave me many words I mispronounce on purpose. These include “specific” and “vehicle.” I ought to stop doing that.[/quote]
Don’t stop! All the cool kids mispronounce things on purpose, because we know it irks certain frowny-face people.
When The Simpsons made fun of Homer for saying “nucular”, I decided then and there that I would always do likewise, because I hate that show for not expiring decades ago.
You obviously didn’t grow up Catholic. Be-AT-i-fy is correct.
And not just Catholic. The sequence “Blessed are the poor in spirit… meek… pure in heart… cheesemakers…” in the Sermon on the Mount is known as the beatitudes.
I was thinking of the sainthood process. But, yeah, other contexts apply as well.
The attitudes of 1950s era Beatniks?
(Pronounced Be-AT-niks?)
Mislead, obviously. It will probably not surprise you that I still have to think about whether the related verb in the past tense is led or lead.
I’m guessing the pronunciation of the Hebrew word would be the most authentic.
From wikipedia: בְּהֵמוֹת, bəhēmōṯ.
Assuming Google Translate gives the correct pronunciation, it’s bah-hah-MAWT.
The vowel-pointing shown above suggests the pronunciation is b’haymot,
the “hay” part rhyming with “may” or “stay” (but perhaps with a shorter vowel more like the e in “fed”), and the “mot” rhyming with goat. Note the contracted vowel following the initial b.
ETA: That may be more modern Hebrew. In ancient Hebrew, it looks like it was b’haymos, same or similar vowels but s instead of t sound at the end.
Leo Mckern as Clang, attempting to buy Ringo’s ring from Paul and John: “Hey, Be-AT-le!” (At about 9:00 here.)
It is reasonable to transcribe Hebrew ת as “th” (as in thread) or “t”, but not “s” [that is a different letter in Hebrew, ס], definitely not in classical Hebrew.
The stress is on the final syllable, as one would expect.
The vowel is a (theoretically long) e, more closed than in “fed” if I am not mistaken
Not “oo-TRAY”? The original word was spelt “outré”.
We’ve been through this. The “online dictionary” assumed A would be read as the NAME of the letter — “ay”’as in “day,” not as “ah” (as most people would read it).
So, yes, the closest English equivalent to the French “é”’sound.
Yeah, and wiktionary gives the IPA which makes it clear (provided you can read IPA, but I’ll translate it for you): /uˈtɹeɪ/. The /eɪ/ there is what we call the “ay” or “long A” sound in English. In French, the sound is /e/, so it’s like the beginning half of the “ay” sound, before you diphthongize it.
Yep, the Anglicized pronunciation is /uˈtɹeɪ/. The French pronunciation is /u’tʀe/.
Thanks to you both. I was actually going to make a little IPA joke in my post (“Maybe we should use IPA — it’s more than just a beer”).
I’ve only heard it pronounced (in various ways) on the Internet, and there’s apparently no consensus on what is correct.
So what did I plant in the perennial border yesterday under the genus Agastache? Does the word end in stash-ee, stak-ee or stash? Or something else?
*I know, I could avoid the problem by referring to it as giant hyssop. But that’s a coward’s way out.
“-STAHCK-ee” according to Wikipedia. ( /ˌæɡəˈstɑːkiː/)
Wait, but Merriam-Webster has the accent on the second syllable, so something more like “uh-GAH-stuh-gee” /ə-ˈga-stə-kē/.
Forvo.com has one audio pronunciation, and theirs is like the Wikipedia one’s. Pronunciations for agastache
That’s from a British speaker, according to their map, though. So who knows if it is the same accent pattern as in US English. (See the difference between US and UK pronunciations of “oregano,” for instance.) I’ve never heard of this word until today, so no idea.
ETA: Looking around more on the internet, this does seem to be a contentious question.
So, you start to pronounce it and change your mind?
And if you’ve never heard “synecdoche” pronounced (or if you’ve never even seen the word), don’t even think to try it.
I saw this mentioned right here on the Dope a few weeks ago. Wow. The words you Dopers know!
Per Wikipedia: /sɪˈnɛkdəki/ sin-NEK-də-kee