Pronunciation

[DampCat]

What's the point on websites such as Wikipedia and Dictionary.com in the Pronunciation brackets? What language is it suppose to be in? Latin?

Is it only me who cant see what that is meant to say?:/

 

[Reed]

heh always wondered the same thing myself, be interesting to see if anyone can shed some light on the matter

 

[Cosimo]

Hope this makes sense:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Pronunciation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_chart_for_English_dialects

 

[qwerty]

It's written in IPA, which is the International Phonetic Alphabet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipa

The idea is that it is completely unambiguous and can be used to show pronunciation for any language in the world. It is incredibly useful, but you do have to learn it first or at least know how to use the IPA chart so you can look up what the symbols mean.

 

[mjt]

It's called the IPA, which is how we teach English pronunciation.
It can also be used for other languages, but it's not universal.

 

[DampCat]

Ah!

Thanks for the links. I had no idea what it was. It's quite clever, actually. Perhaps i'll make the effort to learn all the symbols and pronunciations. Might come in useful living in a foreign country!

 

[Sp00n]

psych-low-thigh-me-a is how I would read that from the IPA.

Whats with the "sikle" at the end?

 

[DampCat]

Whats with the "sikle" at the end?

You're the worst Grammar Nazi ever.

On topic:
I think the "Sikle" is alternative pronunciation for "cyclo", so not as in Cycle.

Incidentally; i got Cyclo-theme-ia before checking the IPA thing. I still think it sounds better than "thigh".

 

[Sp00n]

Ah I see, I went with thigh because thy as in thyme.

Worst... Nazi... Ever!

love it.

 

[cactuscake]

Ah I see, I went with thigh because thy as in thyme.

I hope that was a joke...

Thyme sounds like time (the 'thy' part like tie/Thai...) nothing like 'thigh' whatsoever!

Worst... Nazi... Ever!

+1

 

[Fenris]

I think that counts as 1 point on your Nazi License Sp00n, if you get 5 you have to remove the sig.

Also I think the bit at the end means you can pronounce the "Cyc" at the beginning as "Psych" or "Sick", just a guess though.

 

[meghatronic]

OMG. What do they teach in school these days?!?!?

 

[cactuscake]

Perhaps someone can also enlighten me as to why the word 'pronunciation' is pronounced and not pronunced (or alternatively spelt pronounciation).

Is it just me that thinks these two words should be spelt/said with the same letters/sound at the start, since they refer to almost the same action.