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English in UK
Psychology
I just heard someone say she had written some books on psychology. She pronounced the beginning of the latter word like ( ps- ). In several books on phonetics this way of saying it is not mentioned at all. The word is said to be pronounced ( s- ). I only found one exception to this in : Axel van Wijk - Rules of Pronunciation for the English Language, p.119 : " It is further frequently silent before s in compounds or derivates containing the Greek words 'pseudo-' and 'psyche' ". So 'frequently silent', not always.
Could this be considered as a less serious pronunciation and is one joking a little bit when saying it like this ? Or would this pronunciation be regional ? Or affected ?
RC
Could this be considered as a less serious pronunciation and is one joking a little bit when saying it like this ? Or would this pronunciation be regional ? Or affected ?
RC
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In article (Email Removed) "Ru Chri" writes: [nq:1]I just heard someone say she had written some books on psychology. She pronounced the beginning of the latter word ... joking a little bit when saying it like this ?
- In article (Email Removed) "Ru Chri" writes: [nq:1]I just heard someone say she had written some books on psychology.
- She pronounced the beginning of the latter word ...
- joking a little bit when saying it like this ?
- Or would this pronunciation be regional ?
- [/nq] Certainly the letter psi is pronounced /ps/ in both classical and Modern Greek; correctly, the words in English starting with this letter combination ought properly to sound the /p/.
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In article (Email Removed) "Ru Chri" writes:
[nq:1]I just heard someone say she had written some books on psychology. She pronounced the beginning of the latter word ... joking a little bit when saying it like this ? Or would this pronunciation be regional ? Or affected ?[/nq]
Certainly the letter psi is pronounced /ps/ in both classical and Modern Greek; correctly, the words in English
[nq:1]I just heard someone say she had written some books on psychology. She pronounced the beginning of the latter word ... joking a little bit when saying it like this ? Or would this pronunciation be regional ? Or affected ?[/nq]
Certainly the letter psi is pronounced /ps/ in both classical and Modern Greek; correctly, the words in English
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[nq:1]Certainly the letter psi is pronounced /ps/ in both classical and Modern Greek; correctly, the words in English starting with ... shown to sound the /p/; by a delicious irony, one of those that is "permitted" to sound it is "psellism".(...)[/nq]
Yes, still looking for any remark on thi
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[nq:1]Certainly the letter psi is pronounced /ps/ in both classical and Modern Greek; correctly, the words in English starting with ... shown to sound the /p/; by a delicious irony, one of those that is "permitted" to sound it is "psellism".(...)[/nq]
Yes, still looking for any remark on thi
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