Re: Eak!! WHAT's in a name?

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On 10/23/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>
>>Right then - TAKE it is.
>
>
> Which is literally "The Without-Inflections Greek", or TWIG.  The
> wordlike initialisms just keep coming. :)
Yes. But "The Without-Inflections Greek" is rather stilted English, so I
think I'll snap the twig off   :)

> But the question is, how do you pronounce TAKE?
However you like. Some initials are pronounce letter by letter, e.g.
USA, other form 'words', e.g. NATO. There simply is no standard way in
English.

> I've been mentally
> pronouncing EAK as the separated letters, something like [i:.ei.kei]
> IML.
Good - I must confess I've tended to say 'eek' as I've been writing,
which sounds like a mouse squeak. Another reason to drop the name, maybe.

> Should TAKE be similarly pronounced T-A-K-E?
I suppose so, or even tau-alpha-kappa-epsilon   :)

> Or as the English
> word "take"?  Or ['ta.ke]?  Or even ['ta.ke:], as in George? :)
The final -e is epsilon which is [E] in TAKE itself. So I guess in WHAT
if if was said as one word it'd be ['ta.kE], which is probably the way
I'll be saying it.

I remember a few years back when an earlier incarnation of Piashi was
written as BrSc reading all the different ways people pronounce that  :)

Anyway - all the pages have now been updated, with EAK TAKEn out, so to
speak; and I've added the almost, but not quite, completed 'Verbs - Part
2' page (which probably has one or two typos still lurking). the main
page is now at:
http://www.carolandray.plus.com/TAKE/

PS - as I've included a link to Henrik's site, I've taken the liberty of
anticipating Henrik's permission to quote his GIVE joke.

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