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janetmiles

30 August 2011 @ 08:57 pm

Poll #1774386 Another pronunciation poll, keeping in mind that I can't do IPA here

Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 60

How do you pronounce "monotheism"?

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MOnotheism

34(57.6%)

moNOtheism

7(11.9%)

Some other way which I will explain in comments

18(30.5%)

How do you pronounce "polytheism"?

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POlytheism

33(56.9%)

poLYtheism

9(15.5%)

Some other way which I will explain in comments

16(27.6%)

How do you pronounce "occult"?

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ocCULT

50(83.3%)

OCcult

10(16.7%)

Some other way which I will explain in comments

0(0.0%)

Regardless of whether English is your first language, can you tell me where you learned to speak English (e.g., region in USA, region in Canada, other country and if desired region)?

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glinda_w on August 31st, 2011 01:11 am (UTC)

Ditto! (upstate NY)

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aldersprig on August 31st, 2011 03:20 am (UTC)

Hee, me too!

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aldersprig on August 31st, 2011 03:23 am (UTC)

Spouse (Buffalo, Ny) pronounces them as two trochee words each.

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epi_lj on August 31st, 2011 03:00 am (UTC)

This describes me also.

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aldersprig on August 31st, 2011 03:20 am (UTC)

Hunh, there's a second accent there for me, I think.

MOnoTHEism, POLeeTHEism

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xiphias on August 31st, 2011 11:04 am (UTC)

For me, that's a secondary accent, with the primary being on the first syllable.

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autopope on August 31st, 2011 11:13 am (UTC)

Ditto (UK, pronounced-RP dialect).

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aedifica on August 31st, 2011 05:03 pm (UTC)

+1 (with a secondary accent on mon-, pol-)

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oakwind on August 31st, 2011 10:19 pm (UTC)

me too:) I am a midwesterner

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thorfinn on September 1st, 2011 12:59 am (UTC)

Ditto

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amaebi on August 31st, 2011 01:05 am (UTC)

MOnoTheism
POlyTHEism

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nellorat on August 31st, 2011 01:41 am (UTC)

Yes! Primary and secondary accents.

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bldrnrpdx on August 31st, 2011 03:40 am (UTC)

Secondary then primary, actually. Unless I'm stressing the fact that it's mono and not poly. Then I'd use primary followed by secondary stress.

born in Pacific Northwest, mostly-american-&-heavy-brit/aussie-influence compound in the Middle East for elementary & middle school, then Pacific Northwest again (and since).

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kshandra on August 31st, 2011 01:50 am (UTC)

That describes it better still.

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aldersprig on August 31st, 2011 03:21 am (UTC)

<3<3<3 your icon.

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hitchhiker on August 31st, 2011 04:07 am (UTC)

yeah, pretty much.

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tww1fa on August 31st, 2011 01:11 am (UTC)

Same here. Accent on THE for monoTHEism and polyTHEism. Occult is ocCULT.

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carlyinrome on August 31st, 2011 01:45 am (UTC)

Where I learned to speak English, since it was too long for the box: I moved all over the United States growing up, living in New England, the South, and the Northwest.

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blaisepascal on August 31st, 2011 02:00 am (UTC)

I'll join the "primary accent on the THE in -theism", with a secondary accent on the "MON" and "POL". Actually, while it's hard for me to tell since trying to tell forces things, it's almost as if the stress is "Mon-o-THE-ism" and "POL-y-The-ism"

From ages 1-6 I lived in Union county North Carolina. From ages 7-40 (present) I lived in upstate/central New York (Chenango, Broome, Madison, and Tompkins counties). English is my first (and pretty much only fluent) language.

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jhetley on August 31st, 2011 02:16 am (UTC)

MONotheism.
POLYtheism.

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sweh on August 31st, 2011 03:42 am (UTC)

Mono The Ism (with a soft "th" making it more like a lisped "f")
Poly The Ism (same soft "th")
O' Cult (as "o" as with "Otter")

Essex, England.

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sweh on August 31st, 2011 03:44 am (UTC)

Hmm, also a long "e" in "the" so maybe the whole thing sounds like a lisped 'fee'

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purplepathos on August 31st, 2011 10:43 am (UTC)

Oops. Missed the last question. Grew up and learned to speak in Upstate New York.

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siliconshaman on August 31st, 2011 11:39 am (UTC)

MON-o-THE-ism
POL-y-THE-ism

The correct way, if you're speaking BBC English and not American.

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griffen on August 31st, 2011 09:35 pm (UTC)

Pol-lee-THEE-is-m. Slight emphasis on the first syllable, major emphasis on the third.

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seawasp on September 1st, 2011 12:28 am (UTC)

Learned English in many parts of the US. It's -THEism. There may be a minor secondary emphasis on the first syllable of the prefixes, but it's vastly less obvious if so.

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ditenebre on September 6th, 2011 02:28 am (UTC)

MO-no-THE-ism
PO-ly-THE-ism

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