Timeline for Why are the vowels in Christ and Christmas different? (and other strange diphthong behaviour)
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| Nov 29, 2017 at 10:42 | answer | added | Artsaregreat | timeline score: -2 | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 0:55 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | See also english.stackexchange.com/q/336090. | |
| Jun 18, 2016 at 2:13 | vote | accept | Vun-Hugh Vaw | ||
| S Jun 9, 2016 at 17:42 | history | bounty ended | Fattie | ||
| S Jun 9, 2016 at 17:42 | history | notice removed | Fattie | ||
| Jun 5, 2016 at 23:19 | comment | added | LSpice | @psmears, so much for my universality hypothesis! Is it fair to guess that your maths department is English? Maybe "universally … by American mathematicians" would have been less blatantly false. | |
| Jun 5, 2016 at 22:18 | comment | added | psmears | @LSpice: FWIW In my maths department it was always "SIGH-click" and "SIGH-click-lee"... | |
| Jun 5, 2016 at 17:49 | comment | added | LSpice | @O.M.Y., for what it's worth, 'cyclic', as in 'cyclic group', is (I think) universally pronounced 'SICK-lick' by mathematicians, and I think 'cyclically', as in 'cyclically permuted', nearly as often pronounced 'SICK-lick-lee'; so I'd imagine that 'cyclical' would almost always be 'SICK-lick-all' amongst us. (Of course that sheds no light on why 'cycle', which we pronounce as all other humans, shifts pronunciation when it becomes 'cyclic', only lends some weight to the claim that it does so shift.) | |
| Jun 5, 2016 at 13:37 | history | edited | Vun-Hugh Vaw | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2016 at 22:43 | comment | added | O.M.Y. | @hobbs I hear what you are saying but I have also heard cyclical pronounced "SIKE-lick-all". Which is correct? | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 22:31 | comment | added | hobbs | @O.M.Y. it's the same thing, other than the fact that the /aɪ/ that becomes a /ɪ/ is spelled with a "y" rather than an "i". | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 22:22 | comment | added | O.M.Y. | As long as your at it, what about cyclical being pronounced like it is "SICK-lick-all" ? Is that a dialect issue or something else? | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 13:34 | comment | added | Vun-Hugh Vaw | @ruakh Indeed. I checked and a question regarding "cycle/bicycle" had been asked. I just wanted to make clear that I didn't ask that same question again. | |
| S Jun 3, 2016 at 17:21 | history | bounty started | Fattie | ||
| S Jun 3, 2016 at 17:21 | history | notice added | Fattie | Draw attention | |
| Jun 3, 2016 at 6:05 | comment | added | ruakh | @aslum: The OP is not saying that the <y> is pronounced the same way in bicycle as in cycle; rather, (s)he's saying that that pronunciation difference is to be expected, since the <y> is unstressed in bicycle (whereas in the pairs (s)he's asking about, the corresponding syllable is stressed in both words). | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 18:33 | comment | added | TylerH | 'Michaelmas'? Sounds like a Michael Scott-ism... | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 16:55 | comment | added | aslum | For what it's worth, I generally hear the Y in cycle and bicycle pronounced differently, in basically the same way is Christ/Christmas. | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 16:14 | history | edited | Vun-Hugh Vaw | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 15:00 | vote | accept | Vun-Hugh Vaw | ||
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 14:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/738012541805297664 | ||
| Jun 1, 2016 at 13:58 | history | edited | Vun-Hugh Vaw | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
no big deal, just added one more example.
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 12:31 | history | edited | Araucaria - Him | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 12:26 | answer | added | Araucaria - Him | timeline score: 291 | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 9:07 | history | asked | Vun-Hugh Vaw | CC BY-SA 3.0 |