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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
 I was close to 40 before I found out epitome doesn't rhyme with Rome. I find some English names hard to pronounce (correctly) and that is my native tongue.
Helen |
English speakers aren't used to pronouncing Greek words. Another troublesome one is "octopodes" (the grammatically correct, although almost never used except by liguistic pedants like me, plural of "octopus") which is pronounced in the same way as "antipodes" - ie oc-top-odd-eze. I suspect that you wouldn't get very far if you went into a fishmonger's shop and said "I'd like two octopodes, please"
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