Pronunciation

[dougo]

To my linguist friends: Doug Hoylman asks, "Why does everyone pronounce this game [Chrononauts] as though it started with 'crow'? Every other English word starting with 'chron'—chronology, chronicle, chronometer, chronic—has a short o." I can't think of a good reason, yet I also pronounce it with a long o. Might it be due to the secondary emphasis on the last syllable? The word chronon is pronounced with a long o as well, but I'm not sure that has common enough usage to matter (and it leads to its own pronunciation question).

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[http://users.livejournal.com/little_e_/]

don't ask me, people yell at me for mispronouncing 'pants'. hell, don't even get me started on the pronunciation of 'pronunciation'.

doesn't help that i hang out with people who randomly pronounce words like other langauges/dialects. like calling it 'aluminium foil.'

[ketzl.livejournal.com]

OK, how do you mispronounce pants?

[http://users.livejournal.com/little_e_/]

p-awn-tz