Pry-toria? Pray-toria? Prey-toria?
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Posted on: 2010-07-28 24:44 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
preh-TO-ria
Eh, is pray and prey pronounced differently?
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I believe the title Praetor was used in the original Star Trek series when they found a planet identical to Earth except that Rome was never overthrown. But regardless where I first heard the word it was pray-tor so I have always read it in game as pray-toria.
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This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
It's mandatory that you sing it, though. P-P-PraeTOrians!
I know not what others may say, but I've been pronouncing the place as an anglicized "preh(schwa sound)-TOR-ee-uh," the adjective as "preh(soft e)-TOR-ee-an" or, occasionally, "prah-TOR-ee-an," and the title of its officials as the Latin "PREE-tor."
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The pronunciations at Dictionary.com have the first vowel of the root word as either a long E or long I, and the second as either a long O or an aw sound. In other words, it depends.
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Worked in San Francisco London and New Orleans at different times and "P-r-a-y" and "P-r-e-y" have always been pronounced identically ( but various ways, if that makes sense) in all those places...
In what English speaking region are those two words not homophonic heterographs?
( I pronounce it " prehh TOR ee uh" not sure (do not care) if that is the "correct" way...)
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This, I have never seen anyone pronounce these words differently from each other, but then again I am Canadian, so who knows how badly I am mangling the King's English |
Originally Posted by Lyrik
Eh, is pray and prey pronounced differently?
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Pray-toria. And that's the bottom line, because Emperor Cole says so!!
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Emperor Cole's pronunciation is about as authoritative as Arnold Schwarzenegger's|
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Pray-toria. And that's the bottom line, because Emperor Cole says so!!
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mwahahah
In theory, the correct pronunciation for the Latin is Pry-tor.
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And what about "slithey toves", Brillig? Sly-thee? Slih-thee? |
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Emperor Cole's pronunciation is about as authoritative as Arnold Schwarzenegger's
mwahahah In theory, the correct pronunciation for the Latin is Pry-tor. |
Did they gyre and gimble in the wabe?
Thought so!
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And what about "slithey toves", Brillig? Sly-thee? Slih-thee?
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I pronounce it Pray-TOR-ian in my head. But it appears I was wrong.
Dictionary.com says it's pronounced pree-tawr-ee-uhn.
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Huh. Most times I've heard "Praetorian Guard" pronounced, it's been "preh-TOR-ean." But that doesn't sound right when you just go for "preh-TOR." *scratches head* Darn pronunciations drive me nuts sometimes. English can be goofy in that regard, especially with old or dead language additions.
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Originally Posted by Brillig
In theory, the correct pronunciation for the Latin is Pry-tor.
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English does strange things with the accent in borrowed Latin words. "Consul" is CON-sul but the verb is con-SULT. This actually mimics to some extent the Latin accent itself, which wa[s free to move from one syllable to the next as endings were added; in Latin as well, the noun was CON-sul while the corresponding verb con-SUL-ere.
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From everything I'm seeing on line, the dipthong ae is pronounce as a long a as in say, lay, clay. Which means I've been wrong about it for a long time.
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Meh! I hear it pronounced at several sites as:
- Pree-Tor-ee-uh
- Pree-Tawr-ee-uh
- Preh-Tawr-ee-uh
- Pray-Tawr-ee-uh
- Pray-Tor-ee-uh
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I've always thought the ae combo was pronounced as a long-A. For example: gaelic
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Pray-toria.
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In Latin class, I was taught to pronounce it as a long I. As in Pie.|
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I've always thought the ae combo was pronounced as a long-A. For example: gaelic
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Originally Posted by SerialBeggar
I've always thought the ae combo was pronounced as a long-A. For example: gaelic
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I feel so ashamed. I keep hearing it as Petoria.
I've never spoken the word, and don't expect too
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So the new video gives us three different examples of pronunciation of Praetoria, with Noble Savage pronouncing it Pry-toria, Positron opting for Pray-toria, and War Witch offering Prey-toria.
What's been your preferred pronunciation?
(For what it's worth, I've always heard it closest to Positron's "Pray-toria" in my head.)