From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, May 17, 2014 2:23:13 PM UTC-4, J.Pascal wrote:   
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   > > > On Friday, May 16, 2014 11:13:06 PM UTC-6, William Vetter wrote:   
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   > > >> People who have not had formal education, but have learned primarily   
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   > > >> 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."   
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   > > > Honest, I don't think I've ever heard that word spoken.   
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   > > Back in olden times they had these devices called "dictionaries" that    
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   > > contained information on pronunciation in addition to specific meanings,    
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   > > and some few were taught to look up the words they encountered which    
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   > > were new to their personal vocabularies.  I think that I might still    
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   > > have a hardcopy dictionary around somewhere, covered in dust; new words    
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   > > seem to be added to the consensus vocabulary faster than dictionaries    
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   > > are published, and one is not always online when reading; so it goes.   
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   > Which is great if I'm ever giving a speech and have to pronounce the word   
   sidereal.   
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   > Actually, this would be a really great app for computers and tablets to go   
   with the word-look up functions.  Then a person could hear it instead of   
   having to figure out what the little pronunciation symbols mean.   
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   Most dictionaries that install on the hard drive have that.  Do you want   
   them?  Your computer needs a speaker.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)