Ichor is pronounced with a long I? I’ll be damned, apparently so. I always thought it was pronounced with a short I, like, well, “icky.” It’s not a word I use in everyday language, but I’m sure I’ve said it that way at various D&D games and nobody’s ever corrected me.
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So it is like Eyegore v Eegore.
Or Eyevan v Eevan (I have been told that Eevan is correct).
Just heard ichor pronounced on an online dictionary and it is eyechor, which make sense since it is a Greek based word. I suspect that 95% of the American population pronounces it eechor and it will some day have two pronouncements like Mauve.
Fun. 🙂
Actually, as a Greek word, a short i or even a long e would make more sense than a long i.
The two links I have above point to online dictionaries with pronunciations.
I suspect that 95% of the American population have never seen the word, and another 95% of the ones who have never actually say the word out loud. 🙂
I would have corrected your pronunciation, had I been there.
I mispronounce a lot of words, as my vocabulary comes primarily from reading, and I learned to read phonetically. I really should use my BBBM more often.
It’s likely I first came upon this word in a science fiction book, and I may very well have mispronounced it at first. I must have heard it on a TV show a long time ago, though, as I’ve pronounced it correctly as long as I can remember.
Iconic.
Good comparison. “Idol,” too.
I’m with you on this one. I’ve been mispronouncing it with a short I for years.
I had a similar experience in high school, when I discovered that lethargy was pronounced with the accent on the first syllable, not on the second (as in lethargic). The funny thing is, I’d written a filk a few months earlier using the word in a position that had the first syllable emphasized, and it really bugged me that I couldn’t think of a better word, but it didn’t scan right without (I thought) mispronouncing it.
wow… me being the game geek and using that word all the time… I just never knew! I just added your blog to the blogathon blogroll on my page. Great stuff!
Thanks, Debi.
Huh. I just found out I’ve been mispronouncing “sigil” all these years!
You were pronouncing it with a hard “g” (instead of the soft “g” / “j”)? Yeah, me, too.
The American Heritage Dictionary does offer up the hard “g”
as an alternative pronunciation.
So you have been saying Sigil instead of Sijil?
Yay, another one I have been saying correctly. 🙂
Yeah. I had an “uh-oh” moment while listening to an audio book and immediately looked it up. I see that it has no listing in the BBBM.