How Do You Pronounce CONTROVERSY ?
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:13 pm
With the emphasise on ERvsy, ControVERsY
or Oversey, ConTROVERSY ?
or Oversey, ConTROVERSY ?
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How Do You Pronounce CONTROVERSY ?
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:37 pm
contrOversy
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:46 pm
... unless you read the news for the BBC, ITV....etc etc...
Re: How Do You Pronounce CONTROVERSY ?
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:12 pm
My preference is conTROVersyJ.R. wrote:With the emphasise on ERvsy, ControVERsY
or Oversey, ConTROVERSY ?
Re: How Do You Pronounce CONTROVERSY ?
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:17 pm
and mine too - which is correct?Mid A 15 wrote:My preference is conTROVersyJ.R. wrote:With the emphasise on ERvsy, ControVERsY
or Oversey, ConTROVERSY ?
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:22 pm
AS a matter of interest, does anyone know if there is any other language where the same set of letters can be pronounced in many different ways?
cough, bough, through, though, hiccough, etc..
cough, bough, through, though, hiccough, etc..
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:14 pm
Well, I only asked !!
Re: How Do You Pronounce CONTROVERSY ?
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:33 pm
Agree once again, Great Plum, this is getting too much! It must be our upbringing - oh no that applies to most members of this forum!Great Plum wrote:and mine too - which is correct?Mid A 15 wrote:My preference is conTROVersyJ.R. wrote:With the emphasise on ERvsy, ControVERsY
or Oversey, ConTROVERSY ?
Re: How Do You Pronounce CONTROVERSY ?
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:04 am
Well if you must agree with someone, it might as well be me!Katharine wrote:Agree once again, Great Plum, this is getting too much! It must be our upbringing - oh no that applies to most members of this forum!Great Plum wrote:and mine too - which is correct?Mid A 15 wrote: My preference is conTROVersy
Re: How Do You Pronounce CONTROVERSY ?
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:22 am
Ah the assurance of youth!Great Plum wrote:Well if you must agree with someone, it might as well be me!Katharine wrote:Agree once again, Great Plum, this is getting too much! It must be our upbringing - oh no that applies to most members of this forum!Great Plum wrote: and mine too - which is correct?
This is not a very controversial topic is it?
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:15 am
No, not very...
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:46 pm
OK - here is the definitive ruling! The mis-pronounciation of this word has bugged me since I learned the correct way at CH. You have to remember that this is a compound word from the Latin - contra=against: versa=something to do with words (I am a bit rusty on my declensions so I can't quite remember how, if at all, it derives from verbum!!).
Now, with that little thought in mind, pronounce it so - contra-versy. I know that the spelling has been Anglicised a bit but never mind. Try some others:
(for we musicians) Contrapuntal - try putting the stress on the "trap" and you would sound idiotic, so too with "controversy". "Con-TROV-ersy" is ridiculous!, or
Contradiction - con-TRAD-iction????? Yuk!
As for schedule - it is of course soft unless you have been corrupted by our transatlantic cousins who always get everything wrong.
PS the BBC, however, still tries to get it right among its better readers. Well done Auntie!
PPS I haven't voted as neither option is correct - the stress should be as if two separate words as I have indicated above
Now, with that little thought in mind, pronounce it so - contra-versy. I know that the spelling has been Anglicised a bit but never mind. Try some others:
(for we musicians) Contrapuntal - try putting the stress on the "trap" and you would sound idiotic, so too with "controversy". "Con-TROV-ersy" is ridiculous!, or
Contradiction - con-TRAD-iction????? Yuk!
As for schedule - it is of course soft unless you have been corrupted by our transatlantic cousins who always get everything wrong.
PS the BBC, however, still tries to get it right among its better readers. Well done Auntie!
PPS I haven't voted as neither option is correct - the stress should be as if two separate words as I have indicated above
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:45 pm
Dave, I think the second part of the word derives from the verb vertere (to turn).DavebytheSea wrote:You have to remember that this is a compound word from the Latin - contra=against: versa=something to do with words (I am a bit rusty on my declensions so I can't quite remember how, if at all, it derives from verbum!!).
Versus (-a, -um) is the past participle, so means 'turned'.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:02 pm
Only on a CH forum!!!
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:16 pm
Well, there you go!
We can conjugate verbs and talk about / look at Fiona Bruce pretty much at the same time.
Good, isn't it?
We can conjugate verbs and talk about / look at Fiona Bruce pretty much at the same time.
Good, isn't it?