Pronunciation watch

[Lat-Literal]

"Is the man in charge here tonight?" "No mate, but if you want him he's probably Atome".

Boom boom!

(Basil Brush)

Boom boom boom!

(Baldrick)

Boom boom clang!

(US Strategic Command, which oversees America's nuclear arsenal)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46727991 :

[LMcD]

Ahem.

http://www.pronouncekiwi.com/Ultima%20Thule

and, from Oxford:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/de...n/ultima_thule

Blame my 1950s Latin teacher, who introduced us to the term in connection with the Romans' presence in Britain.

[teamsaint]

Compline rhyming with wine?
Is that a thing?
Only ever heard it pronounced to rhyme with Inn,until last night on R3 and I have been to really quite a lot of compline services!

[french frank]

Ahem.

http://www.pronouncekiwi.com/Ultima%20Thule

The US speaker made it sound like 'ultimately'

and, from Oxford:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/de...n/ultima_thule

I wonder how the theta in /ˌʌltɪmə ˈθuːliː/ is being pronounced? Like an English th or the Classical aspirated t? I had been vaguely wondering how the BBC had been pronouncing this. I expected altima thyool.

[french frank]

Compline rhyming with wine?
Is that a thing?
Only ever heard it pronounced to rhyme with Inn,until last night on R3 and I have been to really quite a lot of compline services!

Complinn.

Sanguine: a sangwinn temperament is warm and dry - or optimistic - associated with the blood/air, so warm and dry.

[french frank]

Sanguine: a sangwinn temperament is warm and dry - or optimistic - associated with the blood/air, so warm and dry.

Just remembered as I was putting on my shoes to go out: blood/air is warm/hot and wet, not warm/hot and dry. FIRE is hot and dry = choleric.

[vinteuil]

The US speaker made it sound like 'ultimately'



I wonder how the theta in /ˌʌltɪmə ˈθuːliː/ is being pronounced? Like an English th or the Classical aspirated t? I had been vaguely wondering how the BBC had been pronouncing this. I expected altima thyool.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkrp3KWbg5s

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO9FTvQex1g

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOUFg7FSGvs

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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Complinn.

Having never knowingly heard the word spoken, I did wonder what ts was complining about (I read the "e" at the end, so it has always rhymed with "twine" whenever I've read it. ) Instead, it should sound more like a well-known sustenance drink for people off their food?

[french frank]

Instead, it should sound more like a well-known sustenance drink for people off their food?

More like that than rhyming with twine, yes, both being stressed on the first syllable I know this from family members in Catholic religious orders …

[LeMartinPecheur]

Have we had biopic, rhyming with myopic, as on Breakfast the other day? Surely it's just a biographical picture (film), so stress on first syllable?

Or am I being short-sighted?

[Padraig]

Have we had biopic, rhyming with myopic?

I remember being quite relieved that I had never had occasion to say that word, because I also remember that the correct pronunciation occurred to me when I eventually thought about it. I still have never said it, but it would be interesting to discover if my first erroneous thought was actually correct.

[gurnemanz]

Instinctively, I would say biopic and think that biopic is a mistake resulting from pronouncing the -ic as an unstressed suffix, as in "topic" or "myopic". As I think about, though, it's not so simple as that, since words from the same root have different stress - biography/biographical - which would seem to justify either version.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Instinctively, I would say biopic and think that biopic is a mistake resulting from pronouncing the -ic as an unstressed suffix, as in "topic" or "myopic". As I think about, though, it's not so simple as that, since words from the same root have different stress - biography/biographical - which would seem to justify either version.

Can't agree with your conclusion gurnemanz: neither of your examples has the necessary strong stress on the first syllable.

[french frank]

Can't agree with your conclusion gurnemanz: neither of your examples has the necessary strong stress on the first syllable.

The two abbreviations have to be kept separate to retain any meaning - bio- (biography) and pic- (picture): ópic has no meaning, whereas bio on its own is an abbreviation of biography anyway.

[cloughie]

The two abbreviations have to be kept separate to retain any meaning - bio- (biography) and pic- (picture): ópic has no meaning, whereas bio on its own is an abbreviation of biography anyway.

I’m surprised in modern film parlance it isn’t biomovie anyway. I cannot think of chicklit as being anything other than shredded paper used for bedding for hens!