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Archipelago
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:58 pm
by Brazilian dude
So, how do you pronounce it?
Brazilian dude
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:42 pm
by tcward
OK, so I see I'm the only one to have voted yet... My 'gut' pronunciation is to make the 'ch' hard, and to pronounce the syllable 'chi' more like 'ih' than a schwa.
-Tim
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:27 am
by Spiff
I'll vote on behalf of my Canadian brother-in-law, who believes: "you say 'arkipelago', but "some Americans" will say 'archipelago' and many others will say 'what's that?'".
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:37 pm
by Stargzer
Warning: Here there be Spoilers!
(
Damn that Stargzer, always looking things up and spoiling our fun!)
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000.
Three accents in the word, secondary on first and last syllable, primary on third syllable:
är' kə-pĕl' ə-gō'
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:04 pm
by tcward
I still will always pronounce it more like 'ih'. Now who's being the spoiler?
-Tim
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:11 pm
by tcward
I mean, I guess some people pronounce 'architect' [är'-kə-tĕkt], too... But I don't!
Interestingly, the 'official' pronunciation of that word is [är'-kĭ-tĕkt]...!
-Tim
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:53 am
by Spiff
So, Tim, are you confessing it's you who voted for "none of the above"?
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:21 am
by tcward
Busted!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:43 pm
by sluggo
I just cast a NOTA vote since, at least in my schooling I remember hearing a double accent on 1 and 4 rather than 1 and 3, and the 4 was pronounced "lay" with a hard ch (ARK-ih-puh-LAÝ-go).
I have heard the 1/3 accent often, and I usually think of it as a Britishism.
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:25 pm
by Brazilian dude
(ARK-ih-puh-LAÝ-go).
Sacrilegious!
Brazilian dude
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:21 pm
by sluggo
(ARK-ih-puh-LAÝ-go).
Sacrilegious!
Brazilian dude
Not possible - it was a Catholic school!
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:40 am
by portokalos
Archi must be pronounced like thw word Archi-bishop.
Archi- pelagos
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:04 pm
by gailr
(ARK-ih-puh-LAÝ-go).
Sacrilegious!
Brazilian dude
Not possible - it was a Catholic school!
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:20 am
by Palewriter
Archi-bishop?
Do we call the inventor of the famous Bathtub Principle* Archie Medes? Nope. Is Jesus surrounded by Arch Angels? I certainly hope not.
For the record, it's arK-uh-PEH-luh-go in my book.
- PW
*When you immerse a body in a tub of water, the telephone rings.
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:50 am
by portokalos
Αρχι-πέλαγος
Αρχι-επίσκοπος
Η Αρχή means start- premier-first to greeks.
I know that really there are many classes of angels. Two of the Archangels are Michel and Gabriel