From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 5/17/14 6:15 AM, mumble wrote:   
   > On 05/16/2014 11:58 PM, J.Pascal wrote:   
   >> On Friday, May 16, 2014 11:13:06 PM UTC-6, William Vetter wrote:   
   >>> 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."   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Er....   
   >>   
   >> Honest, I don't think I've ever heard that word spoken.   
   >>   
   >> -Julie   
   >>   
   >   
   > Back in olden times they had these devices called "dictionaries" that   
   > contained information on pronunciation in addition to specific meanings,   
   > and some few were taught to look up the words they encountered which   
   > were new to their personal vocabularies.   
      
      
   	I was taught to deduce meaning from context. This didn't give   
   pronunciation, though.   
      
      
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