Random q: how to pronounce "Aeschylus"...

Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell
Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell Member Posts: 731 ✭✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

... phonetically speaking?

Thanks! Big Smile

C.

Comments

  • Jack Hairston
    Jack Hairston Member Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭

    The answer depends on where you went to school, especially where you studied Latin.

    • ESS-ky-lus
    • AYE-sku-lus

    or some other variation. My rule for odd names is: Blurt.

    Until WW2, most Americans said "car-rib-BEE-an." Then President Roosevelt said "ca-RIB-be-an." People responded with "So THAT's how you say it." Today you hear both pronunciations.

    So be brave and blurt what sounds right to you. You might get the same reaction as FDR.

  • EastTN
    EastTN Member Posts: 1,517 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/982850#Comment_982850

    Jack Hairston said:

    So be brave and blurt what sounds right to you. You might get the same reaction as FDR.

    [Y]

  • Gordon Jones
    Gordon Jones Member Posts: 743 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/982850#Comment_982850

    Jack Hairston said:

    My rule for odd names is: Blurt...

    So be brave and blurt what sounds right to you. You might get the same reaction as FDR.

    I think you'll find it ought to be pronounced Fidder. You're welcome. [;)]

  • Lew Worthington
    Lew Worthington Member Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/982919#Comment_982919

    Gordon Jones said:

    I think you'll find it ought to be pronounced Fidder. You're welcome. Wink

    [:D]

    American tennis fans struggle with pronouncing Stan Wawrinka's last name. On a Tennis Channel broadcast today, within seconds, I heard two announcers pronounce it differently within seconds of each other: the first in which the Ws were like English "V", and the other like an English "W". If the channel is going to blurt, you might think they'd blurt the same way. Unlike Stan, we cannot ask Aeschylus.

Categories