[ACK] Pronunciation Question

Doc B
Doc B Member Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

Here is a list of names from the pronunciation tool (Factbook Headings, English list)-

The first four names are pronounced (by the software voice) "an-TEE-o-kiss"; the last two are pronounced "an-tee-OK-uss".

Is this historically-linguistically accurate, or is this a foible in the pronunciation tool?

If it is a quirk, is there a way to report the mispronunciations? And how do we know which are correct, or if all the variations are acceptable?

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,120

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  • Thomas Ball
    Thomas Ball Member, Logos Employee Posts: 3,261

    My Latin brain thinks it should be ahn-tee-ah-koos. They are Greek words and ah-tee-ah-kis might be more true to the Greek but I'm not sure. Regardless it seems we should be consistent. I'll look into this.

     

  • David Paul
    David Paul Member Posts: 6,056 ✭✭✭

    Doc B said:

    The first four names are pronounced (by the software voice) "an-TEE-o-kiss"; the last two are pronounced "an-tee-OK-uss".

    I'm pretty sure the first four are correct. Re: Epiphanes...it's not "ee-PIFF-uh-knees" either...it's "eh-pee-pha-NACE".

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