How to you pronounce Logos? Are you consistent?
In 2011 Mark Ward wrote a blog about how to pronounce Logos. Here is the link:
https://blog.logos.com/2015/11/how-to-pronounce-logos-and-other-important-evangelical-words/
Once again he has written another blog on the same topic - this time on the official Logos Bible Software Blog dated today. Here is the link:
https://blog.logos.com/2015/11/how-to-pronounce-logos-and-other-important-evangelical-words/
He says the two primary groups of pronunciations are "the LOW-goess (loʊɡoʊs) party and the LAH-gahss (lɑɡɑs) party"? Personally I used to say LAH-gass but thought I'd try to change to LOW-goes, as it seems more consistent to me and I heard others say it that way. But I have to tell you that, just like Mark confesses in his blog, I now use both pronunciations as I continually struggle with saying it consistently.
What party are you from - LOW-goess or LAH-gahss?
Does anyone else suffer from inconsistent pronunciation of Logos? 
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Bruce Dunning said:
What party are you from - LOW-goess or LAH-gahss?
Neither - it is clearly LOG-goess [:D]
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Everyone knows it is pronounced LOW-goss. [:D]
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"What party are you from - LOW-goess or LAH-gahss?" ??
Me, either LOW-goess -or- LOW-gahss. No one mentioned themselves as using the second, but I switch back -n- forth twixt the two...
Roy
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LAH-gahss here.
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Bruce Dunning said:
LOW-goess or LAH-gahss?
In Britain almost everyone would say LAH-gahss. LOW-goess sounds like an American corruption [:D] (or the plural of 'logo').
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I suspect there are very few of us outside North America in the LAG-Gahss party - most people in the UK that I know refer to it as Log-oss with a short "o" in each syllable.
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"Britain almost everyone would say LAH-gahss. LOW-goess sounds like an American corruption
(or the plural of 'logo')...."Guilty as charged! (Blasted Yank!)
Actually it is move of a "oos" as in Ghost without the 't' or even Oat again no "t", I guess I could just say Looooong 'O' sound. [|-)]
Roy
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GregW said:
I suspect there are very few of us outside North America in the LAG-Gahss party - most people in the UK that I know refer to it as Log-oss with a short "o" in each syllable.
Same down here in Australia - Log-oss
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It's pronounced Faithlife [:P]
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The second way.
My greek (by ethnicity) koine greek teacher pronounced it that way, and so I went with it.
This was further cemented in my mind by my second greek language instructer at the graduate level.L2 lvl4 (...) WORDsearch, all the way through L10,
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LOW-goess. Down with Erasmian pronunciation!
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Without doubt, LAH-gahss. If it was good enough for Paul, it is good enough for me.
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No you are all wrong [;)]
Only I pronounce it correctly[;)]
The correct pronunciation is ... ACCESS DENIED...ACCESS DENIED...ACCESS DENIED
P A [;)]
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Lah-Gahs. Omicrons sound like short O's. If it were an omega, then all the lowgooes people would be right. But since, in holy Scripture, it uses the omicron, you have to pronounce it with a short O. Or you are walking a very thin line toward heresy. [:P]
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I haven't given this an extreme amount of thought, but I find myself separating the 2 pronunciations as follows:
LAH-gahss - When referring to the word of God.
Low-goess - When referring to Logos Bible Software.
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LAW - Gawhss in Canada
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