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 Oct 24 2005, 07:17 PM
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Listening to the audio of the featurette here (select the "closed-caption" quicktime video) the commentator pronounces the name of the moon Dione as "DEE-oh-nay". I've always thought of it as "DI-own", but I suppose I haven't heard anyone knowledgeable pronounce it. Does anyone have a sense as to what pronunciation is in common usage?
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Oct 25 2005, 06:57 AM
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I read all about the planets and the asteroids and the stars back when I was a wee lad... and back before I had a clue as to how Latin and Greek were pronounced.
I did my best, but for a long time, I horribly mis-pronounced most of the names when I read them. (I never had a lot of opportunities to speak them.) So... I had a lot of interesting (and wrong) pronunciations in my head. Like EYE-oh (Io), en-sell-AH-dus (Enceladus), DYE-own (Dione), bet-el-GEEZ with a hard 'G' (Betelgeuse), and my favorite, oh-FIE-u-kus (Ophiuchus). Even though I know better now, some habits die hard. I still have a hard time reading the name Io as "EE-oh." It'll always be "EYE-oh" to me... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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tfisher Dee-oh-nay? Oct 24 2005, 07:17 PM
The Singing Badger The following is from a Wikipedia discussion board... Oct 24 2005, 07:36 PM volcanopele I've usually used Dee-OH-nee (which would give... Oct 24 2005, 07:48 PM
David A lot of these different pronunciations come from ... Oct 25 2005, 12:08 AM BruceMoomaw I've also heard alternate prouniciations for M... Oct 25 2005, 03:39 AM David QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Oct 25 2005, 03:39 AM)I... Oct 25 2005, 03:18 PM BruceMoomaw By the way, Henry S.F. Cooper noted in one of his ... Oct 25 2005, 03:40 AM David QUOTE (dvandorn @ Oct 25 2005, 06:57 AM)Even ... Oct 25 2005, 03:38 PM BruceMoomaw You should have heard me pronouncing the names of ... Oct 25 2005, 12:15 PM dvandorn QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Oct 25 2005, 07:15 AM)Yo... Oct 25 2005, 08:06 PM Rob Pinnegar I also came up with some God-awful pronunciations ... Oct 25 2005, 03:54 PM deglr6328 I called it Die-own too tfisher so don't feel ... Oct 25 2005, 06:27 PM volcanopele What has confused me recently is the fact that cer... Oct 25 2005, 06:41 PM David QUOTE (volcanopele @ Oct 25 2005, 06:41 PM)Wh... Oct 25 2005, 07:55 PM volcanopele QUOTE (David @ Oct 25 2005, 12:55 PM)Did you ... Oct 25 2005, 08:13 PM |
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