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Old 03-04-2016, 12:35 PM   #1529
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
I'm reading The Bonobo and the Atheist by Frans de Waal (narrated by Jonathan Davis). Assuming that the narrator knows more about the language than I, the main thing I've learned so far is that for years I've been pronouncing "bonobo" wrong. The accent is on the second syllable, not the first. Sometimes doing more reading than listening can get you in trouble.
Not a word I've ever encountered, but my natural instinct would be to put the stress on the second syllable and pronounce it "bo-KNOW-bow". Short "o" on the first syllable, long "o" on the second and third. Is that how your book pronounces it?
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