Minutiae!

[nq:2]Perhaps you'd better tell us what you consider to be the "correct" pronunciation, and why.[/nq]
I always pronounce it "my-newt-eee-eye" - I like to watch the pain flash across peoples' faces before they smile gimly and continue.

It is, of course, a Latin word, not English, and no-one living can tell you the 'correct' way to pronounce it. Despite having long been a dead language,

[nq:2]Perhaps you'd better tell us what you consider to be the "correct" pronunciation, and why. [/nq]
[nq:1]~ min NEW shee ee - my 4 dictionaries! :-) Nick ~~ http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?minuti02.wav=minutiae I wuz right - yah yah yah yah-yah! :-D[/nq]
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[nq:1]I always pronounce it "my-newt-eee-eye" - I like to watch the pain flash across peoples' faces before they smile gimly ... at least an attempt to match the original. How do you pronounce "Mallorca" (and how do you spell it!) ?[/nq]
That's easy Muh-jork-uh.
People go there to drink and have fun. After enough drink a person's writing becomes illegible, so spelling is irrelevant.

[nq:2]Perhaps you'd better tell us what you consider to be the "correct" pronunciation, and why.[/nq]
[nq:1]~ min NEW shee ee - my 4 dictionaries! :-)[/nq]
Not my-NEW-she-i?

John Dean
Oxford

[nq:2]Perhaps you'd better tell us what you consider to be the "correct" pronunciation, and why.[/nq]
[nq:1]min NEW shee ee - my 4 dictionaries! :-) Nick ~~ I wuz right - yah yah yah yah-yah! :-D[/nq]
NSOED gives all sorts of variant. The mi- may be as in "tin" or as in "mine", the -u- may be "oo" or "yoo", the -ti- may be "tea"" or "she", the final -ae may be "eye" or "ee" or a schwa. I

"Alan Jones" (Email Removed) wrote >
[nq:1]in a Classical Latin context it would have to be something like "meen-oo-tee-ah-ee"[/nq]
I don't think so
The ah-ee implies that the 'a' and the 'e' were pronounced separately. There's a fair amount of evidnece to suggest that it was one sound:

possibly 'eye' - as in curriculum vitae
possibly 'ee' as in formulae
and possibl

[nq:1]That's easy Muh-jork-uh.[/nq]
Are jew from Jauco? Or New Jork?
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[nq:2]in a Classical Latin context it would have to be something like "meen-oo-tee-ah-ee"[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't think so The ah-ee implies that the 'a' and the 'e' were pronounced separately. There's a fair amount ... possibly 'eye' - as in curriculum vitae possibly 'ee' as in formulae and possibly something else - but one sound.[/nq]
I would pronounce the a and e as in a modern Romance langu

[nq:2]in a Classical Latin context it would have to be something like "meen-oo-tee-ah-ee"[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't think so The ah-ee implies that the 'a' and the 'e' were pronounced separately. There's a fair amount ... - but one sound. Please excuse my lack of correct way of describing sounds; I don't know the technical jargon.[/nq]
The vowel in "sigh" is not a single sound but a diphthong - t

[nq:2]~ min NEW shee ee - my 4 dictionaries! :-)[/nq]
[nq:1]Not my-NEW-she-i? ~[/nq]
No, my Concise OED says 'usu. in pl. -ae' 'ae = e (aegis)' - the 'e' had a '~' over it!
Thus spake the Webster lady! :-)
Nick