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I know where the mispronunciation of cyclic comes from.
Bicycle.
The most common way to say it is, "bye sickle."
You just don't hear people say cycle as sickle anywhere else except for some regional places where it's motorsickle. These regions are not regarded as particularly well educated, smart or having relationships outside ones siblings.
Stereotypes be stereotypical, and shit.
Where are you on pronouncing this list?
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Barometer
Centimeter
Inclinometer
Micrometer
Millimeter
Multimeter
Nanometer
Speedometer
Thermometer
Mike the EE
Gauges got perverted by French pronunciation long ago, moving the emphasis to the OM or TIM. Multimeter escaped because it was multi-meter(tm) for long enough to keep the (something) meat-ur.
DeleteMeasurements are all meat-ur.
The war for these words was lost before we were born.
We can still save cyclic! Return to the original Greek pronunciation! Kye Klick!
The pronunciation of aluminium has always been a fascination to me, delineating English from English. Residing in New Orleans the pronunciation of everything from common words to street names diverges for reasons known only to dead generations sometimes. The road Calliope being pronounced Cal E Ope but the musical instrument being pronounced in the traditional manner.
ReplyDeleteWRT "motorsickle," Arlo Guthrie gets a pass IMHO, since he pronounces it that way for rhyming purposes:
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Motorcycle does not normally rhyme with pickle.
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