How do you pronounce epitome?

[bluguerrilla]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

epitome of hyperbole

[Without A Contraceptive]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

hi
per
bowl

[Reincarnate]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

when the superbowl just isnt enough

[AlexDest]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

when the superbowl just isnt enough

su PUHHH bowel

[Reach]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

Anybody who has taken a French class should recognize autochthonous (in the form of l'autochtone, perhaps, which means Aboriginal). That's how I know how to properly pronounce that one.

As for eleemosynary, it's el-uh-maw-sin-air-ee.

And tergiversant looks enough like tergiverser (again, French, although I feel as if I saw tergiverser in my Latin text somewhere) that I'd guess the English pronunciation would be ter-ji-verse-awnt but I'm probably wrong here.

It is from the latin tergiversari, meaning literally one who turns their back, though it's usually used metaphorically (as in a betrayer). With that said, it's incredibly uncommon and hard to say; you said it right though, so impressive.

Eleemosynary is pretty much impossible to say unless you've seen it before; any word buff probably had because it's one of those words that people like to use in spelling bees to fatality you.


With respect to the original post, 'Potemkin Village' is probably the best and most obnoxious synonym for facade. It's fun to use some times.


Here's something similar but fun: Words that are very common but also very commonly defined incorrectly.

Travesty
Impale
Plagiarize
Tirade
Ominous

Only 5% of people define travestry properly, and less than 15% define the others properly (This includes partial or vague definitions that are approximately correct, as well as synonyms).

[devonin]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

Then you get into the question of what constitutes "defined properly" in a "Original sense versus current interpretation" way.

"Terrific" means "Inspires Terror" but that's hardly how the word is used.

[Reach]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

Then you get into the question of what constitutes "defined properly" in a "Original sense versus current interpretation" way.

"Terrific" means "Inspires Terror" but that's hardly how the word is used.

Defining correctly in psychometrics is usually very vague; anything that approximates a correct definition is counted as correct. The point isn't to be nitpicky, rather, it's to see if you know what the word means. Giving synonyms counts too.

Obviously Terrific -> Inspiring Terror would count as correct, as would 'something awesome' or 'fantastic' or 'fabulous' etc.

[Reincarnate]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

it fills me with awe

[Reach]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

Euler, the mathematician. There's a good one.

Especially if you know how to pronounce Euclid.

[ichliebekase]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

Euler, the mathematician. There's a good one.

Especially if you know how to pronounce Euclid.

Pretty much oiler. Learned this one a long time ago in math class :3 that definitely is a good one though. I'd assume a lot of people say it like ruler but with a y instead of an r, like yooler.

[robertsona]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

I bet you thought it was like epih-toam didn't you

how about facade?

segue?

gyros?

without looking

ep-i-toh-mee
fuh-sahd
seg-way
(this one is probably wrong) jy-rohs

i say "robertsona" to myself incorrectly, sort of technically

i say robert-sohn-uh but it should be robert-son (more like "sun")-ey

[EnR]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

Fa ss(aw)d (same way as robertsona)
Ji rows

[Izzy]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

eh-pit-oh-me

hy-rose (kind of)

[DotKritic]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

ἐπιτομή

[smartdude1212]

Re: How do you pronounce epitome?

That grammar Nazi video is my life and I'm Christoph Waltz.