[ACK] Pronunciation Question

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?

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

Dave Hooton

Bump to FL

Thomas Ball

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

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".