I respect it when I hear someone clearly attempting a word they've only seen written
I respect it when I hear someone clearly attempting a word they've only seen written
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Since we're on the topic there's this historical word that I haven't heard pronounced in English, Alexander the Great had a bunch of generals that were called the Diadochi, I haven't seen this term pronounced in English, but recently I've taken into account the way English speakers pronounce words and I was wondering if the way I'm pronouncing it in English is correct or if I am just wrong.
I've been pronouncing it in an English context as: "Die-a-Dough-key" I'm no linguist so I'm not sure how to write pronunciations sorry if it looks dumb.
It's Διάδοχοι so rather Dee-AH-Do-(c)hee with accent on A, actually more like thee-AH-do-hee but that might sound a bit weird if you don't have a feel for greek pronounciation. A small tip is that "i" is never pronounced as in "die" in greek but as "ee" (or as in "tin" if short).
Edit: I know modern greek, not ancient. The χ might have been more like a K (as the end of truck) in ancient times but I'm not sure. My suggestion above would be a lot closer to the correct pronunciation though.Dee-AH-doh-kee like in ancient greek is probably what you want to use. Sorry for the confusion.
Thank you! Guess I'll just stick to ancient pronunciations on these topics.
Wikipedia has the phonetic as daɪˈædəkaɪ/ dy-AD-ə-ky.
Which with their pronunciation guide would come out as Die-Add-A(h)-Ki(te).
I think.
I might be wrong (and if I am, I'm sure someone will be along to correct me directly)