From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   People who have not had formal education, but have learned primarily from   
   books, even though they may have learned more than many people who have   
   completed degrees, can teach themselves to pronounce unfamiliar words as they   
   are written.   
      
   One afternoon, I was talking to a laboratory stockman at his counter.  He was   
   excited because he had bought a new telescope, and wanted to use the setting   
   circles to find the Ring Nebula and so forth, and he was telling me about   
   sidereal time.  He    
   pronounced it "SIDE REAL."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)