Quoting Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>:
On Sun, Jan 31st, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com> wrote:I would also like to share the feeling of disphoria Mike Taylor felt when I first heard someone else pronounce "calcaneum" at SVP 1999. Not at all what I expected.Is there a concensus on how it's pronounced? I'm torn between 'Kal-Kaneum' and 'Kalsa-Neum' (as in 'calcium'). Excuse the pseudophonetics.
Do you ever pronounce <c> as [s] when it appears in the sequence <ca>? I'm pretty sure I don't...
I've never been sure exactly which syllable to emphasise in 'astragalus' either. Is it 'Astra-Galus'or 'Astrag-Alus'?
The stressed syllable would be the third-to-last (as-TRA-ga-lus) in both Latin and Greek.
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