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Kuna Posted 10 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Mnuchin

How do you pronounce this surname?

Mnuchin

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It's not an English surname. Ask the person whose name it is. In the English words beginning with "mn," (eg.

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  • It's not an English surname.
  • Ask the person whose name it is.
  • In the English words beginning with "mn," (eg.
  • mnemonic), the "m" is silent.
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It's not an English surname.
Ask the person whose name it is.

In the English words beginning with "mn," (eg. mnemonic), the "m" is silent.
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For mnemonic, in my experience it is the 'n' that is silent, not the 'm'.

Clive
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CliveFor mnemonic, in my experience it is the 'n' that is silent, not the 'm'.
Right, my mistake.
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For me. it is the first 'm' that is silent in 'mnemonic'. The first five dictionaries I checked agree.
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I agree with AS. My Longman dictionary says that it's the 'm' that is silent.
And this of Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic
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Hmmm. I'm curious. May I ask each of you native speakers how you personally pronounce mnemonic'?

Clive
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/ne'm?n?k/ or /n?'m?n?k/ (I am not consistent) - educated southern British English
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Somewhere in my late childhood I picked up the pronunciation noo-MON-ik. Go figure.

CJ
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